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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FCWN5HIF4CJ2LZTOMEBJ7Q4IMMV7ZU2V/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZNOS2IIBH5WNJXZUV546PY7666DE7Y3L/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.16.6-and-2.7.15-releasedRelease Notes
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisoriesVendor Advisory
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2020-04Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FCWN5HIF4CJ2LZTOMEBJ7Q4IMMV7ZU2V/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZNOS2IIBH5WNJXZUV546PY7666DE7Y3L/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.16.6-and-2.7.15-releasedRelease Notes
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisoriesVendor Advisory
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2020-04Vendor Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Apr 15, 2020
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified