GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-rc4p-p3j9-6577 pypqc private key retrieval vulnerability
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- pypqc
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Reviewed
- 2024-02-22
Affected packages
• PyPI pypqc: >= 0.0.4, < 0.0.6.1 → fixed in 0.0.6.1
Description
Impact
`kyber512`, `kyber768`, and `kyber1024` only: An attacker able to submit many decapsulation requests against a single private key, and to gain timing information about the decapsulation, could recover the private key. Proof-of-concept exploit exists for a local attacker.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Patches
Version 0.0.6.1 and newer of PyPQC is patched.
Workarounds
No workarounds have been reported. The 0.0.6 -> 0.0.6.1 upgrade should be a drop-in replacement; it has no known breaking changes.
References
Timeline
1. Cryspen researchers privately reported KyberSlash to the reference implementation maintainers.
2. Peter Schwabe partially patched KyberSlash \(only "KyberSlash 1"\) in the reference implementation on December 1st, 2023, but did not document or advertise this as a security patch.
https://www.github.com/pq-crystals/kyber/commit/dda29cc63af721981ee2c831cf00822e69be3220
3. Daniel J. Bernstein publicly reported KyberSlash as a security issue on December 15th, 2023.
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/hWqFJCucuj4/m/-Z-jm_k9AAAJ
4. Daniel J. Bernstein created a webpage for authoritative reference about KyberSlash on December 19th, 2023.
https://kyberslash.cr.yp.to/
5. Thom Wiggers acknowledged KyberSlash as a security issue on December 19th, 2023.
https://www.github.com/PQClean/PQClean/issues/533
6. Prasanna Ravi and Matthias Kannwischer privately reported further details about KyberSlash \("KyberSlash 2"\) to the reference implementation maintainers.
7. Peter Schwabe completely patched KyberSlash in the reference implementation on December 29th, 2023.
https://www.github.com/pq-crystals/kyber/commit/11d00ff1f20cfca1f72d819e5a45165c1e0a2816
8. Prasanna Ravi and Matthias Kannwischer publicly reported their findings \("KyberSlash 2"\) on December 30th, 2023.
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/ldX0ThYJuBo/m/ovODsdY7AwAJ
9. Daniel J. Bernstein published a proof-of-concept exploit \(only validated for a local attacker\) for KyberSlash on December 30th, 2023.
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/ldX0ThYJuBo/m/uIOqRF5BAwAJ
10. Thom Wiggers completely patched KyberSlash in PQClean on January 25th, 2024.
https://www.github.com/PQClean/PQClean/commit/3b43bc6fe46fe47be38f87af5019a7f1462ae6dd
11. James E. A. completely patched KyberSlash in pypqc and released a security update on January 26th, 2024.
https://www.github.com/JamesTheAwesomeDude/pypqc/commit/b33fec8cd36e865f8db6215c64b2d01f429a1ed6
References
- https://github.com/JamesTheAwesomeDude/pypqc/security/advisories/GHSA-rc4p-p3j9-6577 web
- https://github.com/JamesTheAwesomeDude/pypqc package
- https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/hWqFJCucuj4/m/-Z-jm_k9AAAJ web
- https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/ldX0ThYJuBo/m/uIOqRF5BAwAJ web
- https://kyberslash.cr.yp.to web
- https://www.github.com/JamesTheAwesomeDude/pypqc/commit/b33fec8cd36e865f8db6215c64b2d01f429a1ed6 web
- https://www.github.com/PQClean/PQClean/issues/533 web
- https://www.github.com/PQClean/PQClean/pull/534#event-11595728485 web
- https://www.github.com/pq-crystals/kyber/commit/11d00ff1f20cfca1f72d819e5a45165c1e0a2816 web
- https://www.github.com/pq-crystals/kyber/commit/dda29cc63af721981ee2c831cf00822e69be3220 web