CVE-2018-12435

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    CVE-2018-12435

    Published: 15 Jun 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

    References: https://botan.randombit.net/security.html, https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/48fc8df51d99f9d8ba251219367b3d629cc848e3, https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/technical-advisory-return-of-the-hidden-number-problem/

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- c1e5b7193c493ec3d8946fadeb89c05c912b10c5
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.7.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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