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CVE-2013-4242

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Description

GnuPG before 1.4.14, and Libgcrypt before 1.5.3 as used in GnuPG 2.0.x and possibly other products, allows local users to obtain private RSA keys via a cache side-channel attack involving the L3 cache, aka Flush+Reload.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1923-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61464

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/976534

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2731

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2730

http://secunia.com/advisories/54375

http://secunia.com/advisories/54332

http://secunia.com/advisories/54321

http://secunia.com/advisories/54318

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1457.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00003.html

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q3/000330.html

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705

http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717880

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-08-19

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00069

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