Description
An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.16.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.15. An attacker that can get precise enough side-channel measurements can recover the long-term ECDSA private key by (1) reconstructing the projective coordinate of the result of scalar multiplication by exploiting side channels in the conversion to affine coordinates; (2) using an attack described by Naccache, Smart, and Stern in 2003 to recover a few bits of the ephemeral scalar from those projective coordinates via several measurements; and (3) using a lattice attack to get from there to the long-term ECDSA private key used for the signatures. Typically an attacker would have sufficient access when attacking an SGX enclave and controlling the untrusted OS.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FCWN5HIF4CJ2LZTOMEBJ7Q4IMMV7ZU2V/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZNOS2IIBH5WNJXZUV546PY7666DE7Y3L/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html
Vendor Advisory
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories
Scores
CVSS v3
4.7
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
14.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-327
CWE-203
Status
published
Products (4)
arm/mbed_tls
2.7.0 - 2.7.15
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
Published
Apr 15, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026