CVE-2020-27209 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The ECDSA operation of the micro-ecc library 1.0 is vulnerable to simple power analysis attacks which allows an adversary to extract the private ECC key.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00463.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:micro-ecc_project:micro-ecc:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Micro-ecc Project Subscribe	Micro-ecc Subscribe

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-19728	The ECDSA operation of the micro-ecc library 1.0 is vulnerable to simple power analysis attacks which allows an adversary to extract the private ECC key.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/commit/1b5f5cea5145c96dd8791b9b2c41424fc74c2172
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/releases
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-05-20T20:16:08.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:11:35.958Z

Reserved: 2020-10-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-27209

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-20T21:15:07.653

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:20:51.677

Link: CVE-2020-27209

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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