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Medium severity4.9NVD Advisory· Published Jun 15, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-12438

CVE-2018-12438

Description

The Elliptic Curve Cryptography library (aka sunec or libsunec) allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, 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.

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