CVE-2020-10932

MEDIUM
4.7
CVSS Score
Published: April 15, 2020 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:48 AM UTC
4 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxFedorambed TLS

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Severity
MEDIUM4.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.16.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.15. An attacker that can get precise enough side-channel measurements can recover the long-term ECDSA private key by (1) reconstructing the projective coordinate of the result of scalar multiplication by exploiting side channels in the conversion to affine coordinates; (2) using an attack described by Naccache, Smart, and Stern in 2003 to recover a few bits of the ephemeral scalar from those projective coordinates via several measurements; and (3) using a lattice attack to get from there to the long-term ECDSA private key used for the signatures. Typically an attacker would have sufficient access when attacking an SGX enclave and controlling the untrusted OS.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.7.0 ≤ v < 2.7.15
Affected range stops below 2.7.15, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
2.16.0 ≤ v < 2.16.6
Affected range stops below 2.16.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-203CWE-327

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