CVE-2005-1797

Published May 26, 2005

Last updated a month ago

Overview

Description
The design of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), aka Rijndael, allows remote attackers to recover AES keys via timing attacks on S-box lookups, which are difficult to perform in constant time in AES implementations.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Deferred

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.1
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
4.9
Vector string
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Social media

Hype score
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Vendor comments

  • Red HatThe OpenSSL Team do not consider this issue to be a practical threat. Conducting an attack such as this has shown to be impractical outside of a controlled lab environment. If the OpenSSL Team decide to produce an update to correct this issue, we will consider including it in a future security update.

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