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CVE-2017-0379

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• gnupg Libgcrypt: through 1.8.0

References

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100503
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041294
• https://bugs.debian.org/873383
• https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806
• https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=da780c8183cccc8f533c8ace8211ac2cb2bdee7b
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00221.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0379
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180726-0002/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3959
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html

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