CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4576
2.1 LOW
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- 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
- http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2013-December/028102.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/101170 osvdb.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0016.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/520 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/523 seclists.org
- http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ www.cs.tau.ac.il
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2821 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64424 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029513 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf www.tau.ac.il
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2059-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89846 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2013-December/028102.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/101170 osvdb.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0016.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/520 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/523 seclists.org
- http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ www.cs.tau.ac.il
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2821 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64424 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029513 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf www.tau.ac.il
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2059-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89846 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com