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Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in the...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jan 17, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 4, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in the function mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod() in lignum.c in Mbed TLS Mbed TLS all versions before 3.0.0, 2.27.0 or 2.16.11 allows attackers with access to precise enough timing and memory access information (typically an untrusted operating system attacking a secure enclave such as SGX or the TrustZone secure world) to recover the private keys used in RSA.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 17, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 17, 2023
Last updated Feb 4, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-36647

GHSA ID

GHSA-7wwm-8prx-hpg2

Source code

No known source code

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