An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.16.6 and 2.7.x before 2.7.15. An attacker that can get precise enough side-channel measurements can recover the long-term ECDSA private key by (1) reconstructing the projective coordinate of the result of scalar multiplication by exploiting side channels in the conversion to affine coordinates; (2) using an attack described by Naccache, Smart, and Stern in 2003 to recover a few bits of the ephemeral scalar from those projective coordinates via several measurements; and (3) using a lattice attack to get from there to the long-term ECDSA private key used for the signatures. Typically an attacker would have sufficient access when attacking an SGX enclave and controlling the untrusted OS.
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"published": "2020-04-15T14:15:20.123Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2020-10932",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10932",
"imported": "2025-11-20T23:04:00.266Z",
"modified": "2024-11-21T04:56:23.837Z",
"id": "CVE-2020-10932"
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