CVE-2017-7526
mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.038 · 90 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
libgcrypt before version 1.7.8 is vulnerable to a cache side-channel attack resulting into a complete break of RSA-1024 while using the left-to-right method for computing the sliding-window expansion. The same attack is believed to work on RSA-2048 with moderately more computation. This side-channel requires that attacker can run arbitrary software on the hardware where the private RSA key is used.
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affected products (15)
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references (36)
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- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038915cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7526cnnvd
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/627cnnvd
- https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=78130828e9a140a9de4dafadbc844dbb64cb709acnnvd
- https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=8725c99ffa41778f382ca97233183bcd687bb0cecnnvd
- https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=commit;h=e6a3dc9900433bbc8ad362a595a3837318c28fa9cnnvd
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2017q2/000408.htmlcnnvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3733-1/cnnvd
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