GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-c38w-74pg-36hr Marvin Attack: potential key recovery through timing sidechannels

MEDIUM Published 2023-11-28 Modified 2026-04-27 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-49092
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
rsa
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-203, CWE-385
Reviewed
2023-11-28

Affected packages

• crates.io rsa: <= 0.9.6 (no fix yet)

Description

Impact Due to a non-constant-time implementation, information about the private key is leaked through timing information which is observable over the network. An attacker may be able to use that information to recover the key. Patches No patch is yet available, however work is underway to migrate to a fully constant-time implementation. Workarounds The only currently available workaround is to avoid using the `rsa` crate in settings where attackers are able to observe timing information, e.g. local use on a non-compromised computer is fine. References This vulnerability was discovered as part of the "Marvin Attack", which revealed several implementations of RSA including OpenSSL had not properly mitigated timing sidechannel attacks. • https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0071.html • https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/ • https://github.com/RustCrypto/RSA/issues/19

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-49092 RustCrypto/RSA is a portable RSA implementation in pure Rust. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness
  • CWE-385 Covert Timing Channel weakness

References