CVE-2013-5915
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
The RSA-CRT implementation in PolarSSL before 1.2.9 does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a timing side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-310
- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-5749)
- Published
- October 4, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-5749 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
- polarssl / polarssl
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/118758.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119014.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-October/119018.html
- http://osvdb.org/98049
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55084(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2782
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62771
- https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2013-05(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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