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CVE-2013-5915

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Date: October 4, 2013

The RSA-CRT implementation in PolarSSL before 1.2.9 does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a timing side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys.

Language: C

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (10)

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119014.html

Url: http://osvdb.org/98049

Url: https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2013-05

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/55084

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5915

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2782

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/118758.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62771

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119018.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-5915

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Cryptographic Issues

CWE-310

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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