Name: CVE-2018-12435: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-06-15T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-12435, CWE-200, CVSS 5.9, EPSS 0.00153

Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade botan	Aug 22, 2024	Jun 15, 2018
Debian	—	Upgrade botan	Jul 30, 2024	Jun 15, 2018
Freebsd	—	Upgrade botan2	Aug 18, 2018	Aug 17, 2018

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CVSS Details

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