UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10932

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10932
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10932.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10932
Upstream
Published
2020-04-15T14:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:48:24Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mbedtls@2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.1.2-1
2.2.0-1
2.2.1-1
2.2.1-2
2.2.1-2ubuntu0.1
2.2.1-2ubuntu0.2
2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "libmbedcrypto0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls10"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3",
            "binary_name": "libmbedx509-0"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mbedtls@2.8.0-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.5.1-1ubuntu1
2.6.0-1
2.7.0-2
2.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1",
            "binary_name": "libmbedcrypto1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1",
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1",
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls10"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1",
            "binary_name": "libmbedx509-0"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mbedtls@2.16.4-1ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.16.2-1
2.16.3-1
2.16.4-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.16.4-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "libmbedcrypto3"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.16.4-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.16.4-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls12"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.16.4-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "libmbedx509-0"
        }
    ]
}