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High
CVE-2020-27209
The ECDSA operation of the micro-ecc library 1.0 is vulnerable...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html
- https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/releases
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640
- https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/commit/1b5f5cea5145c96dd8791b9b2c41424fc74c2172
- https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html
Affected Vendor
micro-ecc project
View all reports →Affected Software
micro-ecc
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 20th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.