nettle: miscalculations on secp384 curve
Published Feb 23, 2016
9.8
CRITICALCVSS 3.0
EPSS 3.95%
Description
x86_64/ecc-384-modp.asm in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-384 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
- ≤ 3.1.1
Configuration 2
- 14.04
- 15.10
- 42.1
- 13.1
- 13.2
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
nettle-0:2.7.1-8.el7
Fixed · RHSA-2016:2582
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nettle-0:2.7.1-8.el7 | Fixed | RHSA-2016:2582 |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 3.95% (0.03947) | 90.08th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.87% (0.03872) | 88.81th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jul 9, 2025 | 11.88% (0.11875) | 93.40th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 7.65% (0.07645) | 91.06th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 18.46% (0.18461) | 92.16th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 7.65% (0.07645) | 91.25th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.62% (0.00618) | 79.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.48% (0.00485) | 75.28th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 17, 2023 | 0.48% (0.00485) | 72.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.43% (0.00430) | 70.47th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 74.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 74.48th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 72.41th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 51.33th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (15)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00091.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00093.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00100.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/02/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2897-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8804 Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/38-Miscomputations-of-elliptic-curve-scalar-multiplications-in-Nettle.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304379 Issue Tracking
- https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/fa269b6ad06dd13c901dbd84a12e52b918a09cd7 x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-01/msg00006.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2015/003024.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTVendor Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8804
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8804
Change history (0)
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