GHSA-q95h-vc86-hv77MediumCVSS 4.7

wolfCrypt leaks cryptographic information via timing side channel

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
September 25, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

wolfSSL and wolfCrypt 4.0.0 and earlier (when configured without --enable-fpecc, --enable-sp, or --enable-sp-math) contain a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local attacker, able to precisely measure the duration of signature operations, to infer information about the nonces used and potentially mount a lattice attack to recover the private key used. The issue occurs because ecc.c scalar multiplication might leak the bit length.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/wolfcrypt:<= 4.0.0

🔗 References (6)