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CVE-2018-12435
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-15T02:29:00.377 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:37:46.823

Summary

Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Affected products

botan_project — botan

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References

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