VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-14318

CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.10%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-07-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Crypto++ 8.3.0 and earlier contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local or remote attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operations, to compute the private key used. The issue occurs because scalar multiplication in ecp.cpp (prime field curves, small leakage) and algebra.cpp (binary field curves, large leakage) is not constant time and leaks the bit length of the scalar among other information.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-417

Primary references