Libgcrypt before 1.6.5 does not properly perform elliptic-point curve multiplication during decryption, which makes it easier for…

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.6.5 does not properly perform elliptic-point curve multiplication during decryption, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to extract ECDH keys by measuring electromagnetic emanations.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• DSA-3478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• USN-2896-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• GLSA-201610-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• [gnupg-announce] 20160209 [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.6.5 with security fix released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• DSA-3474 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 83253 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• FEDORA-2016-83cd045bcc (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2016:1227 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://www.cs.tau.ac.IL/~tromer/ecdh/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 07:51 UTC.