vulnerability
Arch Linux: Private key recovery (CVE-2018-5407)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Nov 15, 2018 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 15, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
A vulnerability has been found in the ECC scalar multiplication implementation of OpenSSL < 1.1.0i and <= 1.0.2p. The implementation, used in e.g. ECDSA and ECDH, has been shown
to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount local timing attacks during ECDSA signature generation could recover the private key.
to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount local timing attacks during ECDSA signature generation could recover the private key.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
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