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CVE-2020-27209 Detail

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.


Metrics

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Hyperlink Resource
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640 Third Party Advisory 
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/commit/1b5f5cea5145c96dd8791b9b2c41424fc74c2172 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/commit/1b5f5cea5145c96dd8791b9b2c41424fc74c2172 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/releases Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/releases Third Party Advisory 
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html Third Party Advisory 
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html Third Party Advisory 
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html Third Party Advisory 
https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-27209
NVD Published Date:
05/20/2021
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
MITRE