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CVE-2020-11735 (GCVE-0-2020-11735)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-25 13:04 – Updated: 2024-08-04 11:41
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Summary
The private-key operations in ecc.c in wolfSSL before 4.4.0 do not use a constant-time modular inverse when mapping to affine coordinates, aka a "projective coordinates leak."
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2020-04-22 00:00
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