CVE-2020-10932

Published Apr 15, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 4.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3249-1 mbedtls security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-3338 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Trustedfirmware
Trustedfirmware mbed Tls
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:trustedfirmware:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Trustedfirmware
Trustedfirmware mbed Tls
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:21 AM
Reserved
Mar 24, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 15, 2020, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:48 AM