Vulnerability CVE-2014-3591
Published: 2019-11-29   Modified: 2019-12-04

Description:
Libgcrypt before 1.6.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.19 does not implement ciphertext blinding for Elgamal decryption, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain the server's private key by determining factors using crafted ciphertext and the fluctuations in the electromagnetic field during multiplication.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnupg -> Gnupg 
Gnupg -> Libgcrypt 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/radioexp/
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3184
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3185
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000363.html
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000364.html
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