Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-12438 - Key Management Errors vulnerability in Libsunec Project Libsunec
Attack vector
PHYSICAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
The Elliptic Curve Cryptography library (aka sunec or libsunec) allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |