Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-0735  

The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack in openssl versions prior to 1.1.1a. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Private key recovery

Description

The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack in openssl versions prior to 1.1.1a. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key.

AVG-793 lib32-openssl 1:1.1.1-1 1:1.1.1.a-1 Low Fixed

AVG-792 openssl 1.1.1-1 1.1.1.a-1 Low Fixed

08 Dec 2018 ASA-201812-6 AVG-793 lib32-openssl Low private key recovery

08 Dec 2018 ASA-201812-5 AVG-792 openssl Low private key recovery

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20181029.txt
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b1d6d55ece1c26fa2829e2b819b038d7b6d692b4