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GHSA-g753-jx37-7xwh

MediumCVSS 5.9 / 10
Published Jun 30, 2020·Last modified Sep 22, 2021
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

ECDSA side-channel attack named Minerava have been found and it was found that it affects to jsrsasign.

Execution time of thousands signature generation have been observed then EC private key which is scalar value may be recovered since point and scalar multiplication time depends on bits of scalar. In jsrsasign 8.0.13 or later, execution time of EC point and scalar multiplication is almost constant and fixed for the issue.

  • Minerva is one of timing attack or side channel attack for EC.
  • If you don't use ECDSA class, you are not affected the vulnerability.
  • The vulnerability is that attacker may guess private key by checking processing time of EC key generation or ECDSA signing.
  • The cause issue is that point multiplication processing time in ECDSA signing is depends on private key value.
  • After 8.0.13, processing time of point multiplication in ECDSA signing have become constant for key value in theory.

Patches

Users using ECDSA signature generation should upgrade to 8.0.13 or later.

Workarounds

There is no workarounds in jsrsasign. Update jsrsasign or use other ECDSA library.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thanks to Jan Jancar @J08nY, Petr Svenda and Vladimir Sedlacek of Masaryk University in Czech Republic to find and report this vulnerability.

References

https://minerva.crocs.fi.muni.cz/ https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1505 https://github.com/kjur/jsrsasign/issues/411

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.9

The vulnerability can be exploited over a local network, such as Wi-Fi. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data.

Threat Intelligence
5.4

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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