RUSTSEC-2022-0045

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    RUSTSEC-2022-0045

    Published: 30 Jul 2022Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    Summary: Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanism SIKE broken

    Details: Wouter Castryck and Thomas Decru presented an efficient key recovery attack on the SIDH protocol. As a result, the secret key of SIKEp751 can be recovered in a matter of hours. The SIKE and SIDH schemes will be removed from oqs 0.7.2. The affected schemes are the `oqs::kem::Algorithm::Sike*` and `oqs::kem::Algorithm::Sidh*` enum variants. [An efficient key recovery attack on SIDH (preliminary version)](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/975)

    References: https://crates.io/crates/oqs, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0045.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: oqs

    Purl: pkg:cargo/oqs

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0.0.0-0
    Fixed -0.7.2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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