CVE-2013-5915

The RSA-CRT implementation in PolarSSL before 1.2.9 does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a timing side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2013-10-04

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-310

Affected products

• Polarssl (Polarssl)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/118758.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119014.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119018.html
• http://osvdb.org/98049
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55084
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2782
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62771
• https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2013-05