Insecure Encryption Affecting wolfssl/wolfssl package, versions [,4.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WOLFSSLWOLFSSL-2369417
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-11735  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wolfssl/wolfssl to version 4.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Encryption. The private-key operations in ecc.c in wolfSSL before 4.4.0 do not use a constant-time modular inverse when mapping to affine coordinates, aka a "projective coordinates leak."

CVSS Scores

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