Timing Attack Affecting nrfconnect/sdk-oberon-psa-crypto package, versions [1.0.0,1.5.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NRFCONNECTSDKOBERONPSACRYPTO-12239908
  • published29 Aug 2025
  • disclosed29 Aug 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-7383  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nrfconnect/sdk-oberon-psa-crypto to version 1.5.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via the PKCS#7 padding removal in psa_crypto.c() function. An attacker can recover sensitive plaintext information by measuring the time taken for decryption operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1