CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14737
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.
Affected configurations
• botan project botan (<= 1.10.16)
• botan project botan 1.11.0
• botan project botan 1.11.1
• botan project botan 1.11.2
• botan project botan 1.11.3
• botan project botan 1.11.4
• botan project botan 1.11.5
• botan project botan 1.11.6
• botan project botan 1.11.7
• botan project botan 1.11.8
• botan project botan 1.11.9
• botan project botan 1.11.10
• botan project botan 1.11.11
• botan project botan 1.11.12
• botan project botan 1.11.13
• botan project botan 1.11.14
• botan project botan 1.11.15
• botan project botan 1.11.16
• botan project botan 1.11.17
• botan project botan 1.11.18
• botan project botan 1.11.19
• botan project botan 1.11.20
• botan project botan 1.11.21
• botan project botan 1.11.22
• botan project botan 1.11.23
• botan project botan 1.11.24
• botan project botan 1.11.25
• botan project botan 1.11.26
• botan project botan 1.11.27
• botan project botan 1.11.28
• botan project botan 1.11.33
• botan project botan 1.11.34
• botan project botan 2.0.0
• botan project botan 2.0.1
• botan project botan 2.1.0
• botan project botan 2.2.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
References
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/issues/1222 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00006.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/wang-shuai Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/issues/1222 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00006.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/wang-shuai Third Party Advisory