Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-43398 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in Cryptopp Crypto++

Summary

Crypto++ (aka Cryptopp) 8.6.0 and earlier contains a timing leakage in MakePublicKey(). There is a clear correlation between execution time and private key length, which may cause disclosure of the length information of the private key. This might allow attackers to conduct timing attacks. NOTE: this report is disputed by the vendor and multiple third parties. The execution-time differences are intentional. A user may make a choice of a longer key as a tradeoff between strength and performance. In making this choice, the amount of information leaked to an adversary is of infinitesimal value

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-203 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy

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