Vulnerability · Published Aug 10, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-17478
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 67% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
ECDSA/EC/Point.pm in Crypt::Perl before 0.33 does not properly consider timing attacks against the EC point multiplication algorithm.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/FGasper/p5-Crypt-Perl/compare/0.32...0.33 x_refsource_MISC