Vulnerability CVE-2015-0837
Published: 2019-11-29   Modified: 2019-12-04

Description:
The mpi_powm function in Libgcrypt before 1.6.3 and GnuPG before 1.4.19 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging timing differences when accessing a pre-computed table during modular exponentiation, related to a "Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attack."

Type:

CWE-203

 (Information Exposure Through Discrepancy)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnupg -> Gnupg 
Gnupg -> Libgcrypt 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3184
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3185
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7163050
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000363.html
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q1/000364.html
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