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
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13176
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13176
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/07272b05b04836a762b4baa874958af51d513844
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/2af62e74fb59bc469506bc37eb2990ea408d9467
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/392dcb336405a0c94486aa6655057f59fd3a0902
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/4b1cb94a734a7d4ec363ac0a215a25c181e11f65
github.com
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/77c608f4c8857e63e98e66444e2e761c9627916f
github.openssl.org
https://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-releases/commit/0d5fd1ab987f7571e2c955d8d8b638fc0fb54ded
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