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Marvin Attack vulnerability in SP Math All RSA

Published Feb 9, 2024

Description

wolfSSL SP Math All RSA implementation is vulnerable to the Marvin Attack, new variation of a timing Bleichenbacher style attack, when built with the following options to configure:

--enable-all CFLAGS="-DWOLFSSL_STATIC_RSA"

The define “WOLFSSL_STATIC_RSA” enables static RSA cipher suites, which is not recommended, and has been disabled by default since wolfSSL 3.6.6.  Therefore the default build since 3.6.6, even with "--enable-all", is not vulnerable to the Marvin Attack. The vulnerability is specific to static RSA cipher suites, and expected to be padding-independent.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to decrypt ciphertexts and forge signatures after probing with a large number of test observations. However the server’s private key is not exposed.

Affected products

Remediation

Vendor solution

Upgrade wolfSSL to 5.6.6

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Weaknesses (1)

References (2)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner wolfSSL
Published Feb 9, 2024
Updated Aug 2, 2024
Reserved Dec 18, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Feb 12, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a