Information disclosure in mbed Crypto and mbed TLS - CVE-2019-16910
Published: September 26, 2019 / Updated: July 27, 2020
mbed Crypto
mbed TLS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
Arm Mbed TLS before 2.19.0 and Arm Mbed Crypto before 2.0.0, when deterministic ECDSA is enabled, use an RNG with insufficient entropy for blinding, which might allow an attacker to recover a private key via side-channel attacks if a victim signs the same message many times. (For Mbed TLS, the fix is also available in versions 2.7.12 and 2.16.3.)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-16910
Sources
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/commit/298a43a77ec0ed2c19a8c924ddd8571ef3e65dfd
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/commit/33f66ba6fd234114aa37f0209dac031bb2870a9b
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CGSKQSGR5SOBRBXDSSPTCDSBB5K3GMPF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CSFFOROD6IVLADZHNJC2LPDV7FQRP7XB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PEHHH2DOBXB25CAU3Q6E66X723VAYTB5/
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2019-10