Medium severity · published Jan 20, 2025
CVE-2024-13176
Timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation
4.1
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow recovering the private key exists in the ECDSA signature computation. Impact summary: A timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computations could allow recovering the private key by an attacker. However, measuring the timing would require either local access to the signing application or a very fast network connection with low latency. There is a timing signal of around 300 nanoseconds when the top word of the inverted ECDSA nonce value is zero. This can happen with significant probability only for some of the supported elliptic curves. In particular the NIST P-521 curve is affected. To be able to measure this leak, the attacker process must either be located in the same physical computer or must have a very fast network connection with low latency. For that reason the severity of this vulnerability is Low. The FIPS modules in 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenSSL · OpenSSL
3.4.0 before 3.4.1; 3.3.0 before 3.3.3; 3.2.0 before 3.2.4; 3.1.0 before 3.1.8; 3.0.0 before 3.0.16; 1.1.1 before 1.1.1zb; +1 more · source: vendor