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CVE-2013-5915

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The RSA-CRT implementation in PolarSSL before 1.2.9 does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a timing side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys.

Affected products

• PolarSSL: through 1.2.8; 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 0.12.1 (+27)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/118758.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119014.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119018.html
• http://osvdb.org/98049
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55084
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2782
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62771
• https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2013-05
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/118758.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119014.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119018.html
• http://osvdb.org/98049

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