VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5915

medium
Published 2013-10-04 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The RSA-CRT implementation in PolarSSL before 1.2.9 does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a timing side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
polarsslpolarssl{"endIncluding":"1.2.8"}
polarsslpolarssl0.10.0
polarsslpolarssl0.10.1
polarsslpolarssl0.11.0
polarsslpolarssl0.11.1
polarsslpolarssl0.12.0
polarsslpolarssl0.12.1
polarsslpolarssl0.13.1
polarsslpolarssl0.14.0
polarsslpolarssl0.14.2
polarsslpolarssl0.14.3
polarsslpolarssl0.99
polarsslpolarssl1.0.0
polarsslpolarssl1.1.0
polarsslpolarssl1.1.1
polarsslpolarssl1.1.2
polarsslpolarssl1.1.3
polarsslpolarssl1.1.4
polarsslpolarssl1.1.5
polarsslpolarssl1.1.6
polarsslpolarssl1.1.8
polarsslpolarssl1.2.0
polarsslpolarssl1.2.1
polarsslpolarssl1.2.2
polarsslpolarssl1.2.3
polarsslpolarssl1.2.4
polarsslpolarssl1.2.5
polarsslpolarssl1.2.6
polarsslpolarssl1.2.7

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.