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CVE-2020-27209

high

Description

The ECDSA operation of the micro-ecc library 1.0 is vulnerable to simple power analysis attacks which allows an adversary to extract the private ECC key.

References

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html

https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html

https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/releases

https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/commit/1b5f5cea5145c96dd8791b9b2c41424fc74c2172

https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-05-20

Updated: 2021-05-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00463