CVE-2023-45287

Before Go 1.20, the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls may exhibit a timing side channel

published December 5, 2023

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Before Go 1.20, the RSA based TLS key exchanges used the math/big library, which is not constant time. RSA blinding was applied to prevent timing attacks, but analysis shows this may not have been fully effective. In particular it appears as if the removal of PKCS#1 padding may leak timing information, which in turn could be used to recover session key bits. In Go 1.20, the crypto/tls library switched to a fully constant time RSA implementation, which we do not believe exhibits any timing side channels.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01250 · 69.2th percentile
Published
2023-12-05T16:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 DEC 16:18Z
    Before Go 1.20, the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls may exhibit a timing side channel
    cvelistv5