Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-1797 - Unspecified vulnerability in Openssl

047910
CVSS 5.1 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
high complexity
openssl
nessus

Summary

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.

Nessus

NASL familyWeb Servers
NASL idOPENSSL_AES_TIMING_ATTACK.NASL
descriptionS-box lookup can hardly be performed in constant time in AES implementations. Theoretically, remote attackers could recover AES keys by performing a timing attack on these S-box lookup. No practical implementation of a remote attack is known.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id17769
published2012-01-04
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17769
titleOpenSSL AES Timing Attack
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(17769);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/16 14:09:14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-1797");
  script_bugtraq_id(13785);

  script_name(english:"OpenSSL AES Timing Attack"); 
  script_summary(english:"Does a banner check");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote server is affected by a timing attack.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"S-box lookup can hardly be performed in constant time in AES
implementations.  Theoretically, remote attackers could recover AES
keys by performing a timing attack on these S-box lookup.  No
practical implementation of a remote attack is known.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Unknown at this time.");
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/05/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/01/04");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:openssl:openssl");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Web Servers");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("openssl_version.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Settings/ParanoidReport", "openssl/port", "Settings/PCI_DSS");

  exit(0);
}

include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

port = get_kb_item_or_exit("openssl/port");

if (!get_kb_item("Settings/PCI_DSS")) exit(0, "PCI-DSS compliance checking is not enabled.");
security_warning(port);

Statements

contributorJoshua Bressers
lastmodified2008-07-08
organizationRed Hat
statementThe OpenSSL Team do not consider this issue to be a practical threat. Conducting an attack such as this has shown to be impractical outside of a controlled lab environment. If the OpenSSL Team decide to produce an update to correct this issue, we will consider including it in a future security update.