CVE-2019-18222 Information

Description

The ECDSA signature implementation in ecdsa.c in Arm Mbed Crypto 2.1 and Mbed TLS through 2.19.1 does not reduce the blinded scalar before computing the inverse which allows a local attacker to recover the private key via side-channel attacks.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3GWQNONS7GRORXZJ7MOJFUEJ2ZJ4OUW/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NGDACU65MYZXXVPQP2EBHUJGOR4RWLVY/ https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2019-12

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.7