CVE-2024-23170 | BDVDB-2026-223380 Detail
Description#
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.7 and 3.x before 3.5.2. There was a timing side channel in RSA private operations. This side channel could be sufficient for a local attacker to recover the plaintext. It requires the attacker to send a large number of messages for decryption, as described in "Everlasting ROBOT: the Marvin Attack" by Hubert Kario.
Impact#
Per CVSS v3.1: confidentiality impact high, integrity impact none, availability impact none. Attack vector: local.
Weaknesses#
- CWE-385 Covert Timing Channel
References#
- https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2024-01-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IIBPEYSVRK4IFLBSYJAWKH33YBNH5HR2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GP5UU7Z6LJNBLBT4SC5WWS2HDNMTFZH5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GP5UU7Z6LJNBLBT4SC5WWS2HDNMTFZH5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IIBPEYSVRK4IFLBSYJAWKH33YBNH5HR2/
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.