VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-14737

medium
Published 2017-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
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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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed2.3.0-1
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
botan_projectbotan{"endIncluding":"1.10.16"}
botan_projectbotan1.11.0
botan_projectbotan1.11.1
botan_projectbotan1.11.2
botan_projectbotan1.11.3
botan_projectbotan1.11.4
botan_projectbotan1.11.5
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botan_projectbotan1.11.26
botan_projectbotan1.11.27
botan_projectbotan1.11.28
botan_projectbotan1.11.33
botan_projectbotan1.11.34
botan_projectbotan2.0.0
botan_projectbotan2.0.1
botan_projectbotan2.1.0
botan_projectbotan2.2.0

References

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

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