Cryptographic issues in OpenSSL - CVE-2014-0076

 

Cryptographic issues in OpenSSL - CVE-2014-0076

Published: June 13, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU77192
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0076
CWE-ID: CWE-310
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenSSL Software Foundation
Affected software:
OpenSSL

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to montgomery ladder implementation in OpenSSL does not ensure that certain swap operations have a constant-time behavior. A local attacker can obtain ECDSA nonces via a FLUSH+RELOAD cache side-channel attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2014-0076

Install updates from vendor's website.

Sources