Observable Timing Discrepancy Affecting pycryptodomex package, versions [,3.19.1)


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYCRYPTODOMEX-6145008
  • published 5 Jan 2024
  • disclosed 5 Jan 2024
  • credit Hubert Kario

How to fix?

Upgrade pycryptodomex to version 3.19.1 or higher.

Overview

pycryptodomex is a Cryptographic library for Python

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Observable Timing Discrepancy due to improper handling of OAEP decryption. An attacker can extract sensitive information by exploiting the side-channel leakage to perform a Manger attack (Marvin).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.9 medium
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Red Hat

5.9 medium
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SUSE

5.9 medium