CVE-2020-10932

MEDIUM

Arm Mbed TLS <2.16.6, <2.7.15 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

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