CVE-2005-1797

medium

Description

The design of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), aka Rijndael, allows remote attackers to recover AES keys via timing attacks on S-box lookups, which are difficult to perform in constant time in AES implementations.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2005-1799

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13785

http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-05-26

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N