CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-4576

2.1 LOW Published 2013-12-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-12-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-255

Description

GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.16 generates RSA keys using sequences of introductions with certain patterns that introduce a side channel, which allows physically proximate attackers to extract RSA keys via a chosen-ciphertext attack and acoustic cryptanalysis during decryption. NOTE: applications are not typically expected to protect themselves from acoustic side-channel attacks, since this is arguably the responsibility of the physical device. Accordingly, issues of this type would not normally receive a CVE identifier. However, for this issue, the developer has specified a security policy in which GnuPG should offer side-channel resistance, and developer-specified security-policy violations are within the scope of CVE.

Affected configurations

• gnupg gnupg (<= 1.4.15) • gnupg gnupg 1.0.0 • gnupg gnupg 1.0.1 • gnupg gnupg 1.0.2 • gnupg gnupg 1.0.3 • gnupg gnupg 1.0.4 • gnupg gnupg 1.0.5 • gnupg gnupg 1.0.6 • gnupg gnupg 1.0.7 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.0 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.1 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.2 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.3 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.4 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.5 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.6 • gnupg gnupg 1.2.7 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.0 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.1 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.2 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.3 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.4 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.6 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.90 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.91 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.92 • gnupg gnupg 1.3.93 • gnupg gnupg 1.4 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.0 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.2 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.3 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.4 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.5 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.6 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.8 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.10 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.11 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.12 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.13 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.14

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-1300 Improper Protection of Physical Side Channels weakness

References