Vulnerability in Ncipher Chil
CVE-2006-1115
nCipher HSM before 2.22.6, when generating a Diffie-Hellman public/private key pair without any specified DiscreteLogGroup parameters, chooses random parameters that could allow an attacker to crack the private key in significantly less time than a brute force attack.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.012 (66.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 66.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ncipher Chil
- Ncipher Mscapi Csp — versions 5.50, 5.54
- Ncipher Software Cd
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0862 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427146/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.ncipher.com/resources/95/sa12_insecure_generation_of_diffiehellman_keys (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/17006 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/19137 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25060 (vdb-entry)