CVE-2020-27209
HIGHmicro-ecc 1.0 - Private Key Extraction via Simple Power Analysis
Title source: llmDescription
The ECDSA operation of the micro-ecc library 1.0 is vulnerable to simple power analysis attacks which allows an adversary to extract the private ECC key.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/releases
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/commit/1b5f5cea5145c96dd8791b9b2c41424fc74c2172
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0154
EPSS Percentile
71.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
micro-ecc_project/micro-ecc
1.0
Published
May 20, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026