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CVE-2017-0379

high

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3959

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0379

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00221.html

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806

https://bugs.debian.org/873383

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100503

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180726-0002/

https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=da780c8183cccc8f533c8ace8211ac2cb2bdee7b

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-0733

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041294

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-29

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01881