CVE-2018-12440

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

BoringSSL through 2018-06-14 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on DSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover a DSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Affected products

Google Boringssl: through 2018-06-14

References

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/technical-advisory-return-of-the-hidden-number-problem/
https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/technical-advisory-return-of-the-hidden-number-problem/

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