CVE-2017-0379

HIGH

Libgcrypt < 1.8.1 - Exposure of Sensitive Information via Curve25519 Side-Channel Attack

Title source: llm

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.

References (11)

Core 11

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100503

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041294

Patch, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3959

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00221.html

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=da780c8183cccc8f533c8ace8211ac2cb2bdee7b

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0379

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180726-0002/

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugs.debian.org/873383

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0351

EPSS Percentile 87.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 9.0

gnupg/libgcrypt < 1.8.0

n/a/libgcrypt libgcrypt

Published Aug 29, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026