CVE-2018-0495

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Libgcrypt before 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures that can be mitigated through the use of blinding during the signing process in the _gcry_ecc_ecdsa_sign function in cipher/ecc-ecdsa.c, 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0495

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0495.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201806-10

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.8.3-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.8.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.8.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.8.3-1
debian debiansidfixed1.8.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.8.3-1

References

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