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CVE-2005-1797

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The design of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), aka Rijndael, allows remote attackers to recover AES keys via timing attacks on S-box lookups, which are difficult to perform in constant time in AES implementations.

Affected products

• OpenSSL: 0.9.1c, 0.9.2b, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.5a (+22)

References

• http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13785
• http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13785

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