CVE-2020-27209 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2021-05-20

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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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.

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 0.01537.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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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Subscriptions

Micro-ecc Project Micro-ecc

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

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-06-17T03:08:56.517

Link: CVE-2020-27209

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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