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Mbed TLS -- Local side channel attack on RSA and static Diffie-Hellman

Affected packages
mbedtls < 2.16.8

Details

VuXML ID bcdeb6d2-f02d-11ea-838a-0011d823eebd
Discovery 2020-09-01
Entry 2020-09-06

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard reports:

An attacker with access to precise enough timing and memory access information (typically an untrusted operating system attacking a secure enclave such as SGX or the TrustZone secure world) can recover the private keys used in RSA or static (finite-field) Diffie-Hellman operations.

References

URL https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2020-09-2