High severity · published Aug 29, 2017
CVE-2017-0379
Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and…
7.5
CVSS
3.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.5% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
LI
Libgcrypt · Gnupg
through 1.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0379
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-0379
www.oracle.com
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100503
www.securitytracker.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041294
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/873383
Mailing List
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806
git.gnupg.org
https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=da780c8183cccc8f533c8ace8211ac2cb2bdee7b
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