CVE-2024-13176

Public on 2025-01-20
Modified on 2025-01-22
Description
Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow recovering
the private key exists in the ECDSA signature computation.

Impact summary: A timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computations
could allow recovering the private key by an attacker. However, measuring
the timing would require either local access to the signing application or
a very fast network connection with low latency.

There is a timing signal of around 300 nanoseconds when the top word of
the inverted ECDSA nonce value is zero. This can happen with significant
probability only for some of the supported elliptic curves. In particular
the NIST P-521 curve is affected. To be able to measure this leak, the attacker
process must either be located in the same physical computer or must
have a very fast network connection with low latency. For that reason
the severity of this vulnerability is Low.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.7
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
HAQM Linux 2 - Core edk2 2025-01-30 ALAS2-2025-2750 Fixed
HAQM Linux 1 openssl No Fix Planned
HAQM Linux 2 - Core openssl 2025-02-26 ALAS2-2025-2780 Fixed
HAQM Linux 2023 openssl 2025-02-26 ALAS2023-2025-882 Fixed
HAQM Linux 2 - Openssl-snapsafe Extra openssl-snapsafe 2025-03-03 ALAS2OPENSSL-SNAPSAFE-2025-007 Fixed
HAQM Linux 2 - Core openssl11 2025-02-26 ALAS2-2025-2781 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
HAQM Linux CVSSv3 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L