Name: CVE-2016-2849: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-2849, CWE-200, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00583

Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.29 do not use a constant-time algorithm to perform a modular inverse on the signature nonce k, which might allow remote attackers to obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel attack.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade botan1.10	May 2, 2016	May 2, 2016
Freebsd	—	Upgrade botan110	Dec 10, 2025	Jun 14, 2016
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade dev-libs/botan.	Oct 30, 2017	May 13, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade libbotan-develUpgrade libbotan-1_10-0	Apr 19, 2017	May 13, 2016
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade botan1.10	Nov 19, 2024	May 13, 2016

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CVSS Details

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