Vulnerability CVE-2013-4576


Published: 2013-12-20   Modified: 2013-12-21

Description:
GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.16 generates RSA keys using sequences of introductions with certain patterns that introduce a side channel, which allows physically proximate attackers to extract RSA keys via a chosen-ciphertext attack and acoustic cryptanalysis during decryption. NOTE: applications are not typically expected to protect themselves from acoustic side-channel attacks, since this is arguably the responsibility of the physical device. Accordingly, issues of this type would not normally receive a CVE identifier. However, for this issue, the developer has specified a security policy in which GnuPG should offer side-channel resistance, and developer-specified security-policy violations are within the scope of CVE.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
GnuPG 1.4.16 fixes RSA key extraction via acoustic side channel
Solar Designer
18.12.2013

Type:

CWE-255

(Credentials Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnupg -> Gnupg 

 References:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2013-December/028102.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/89846
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2059-1
http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029513
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64424
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2821
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/523
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/520
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0016.html
http://osvdb.org/101170

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