What is CVE-2017-6076?

CVE-2017-6076 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wolfssl, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-24.

How severe is CVE-2017-6076?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-6076 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Information disclosure in Wolfssl

CVE-2017-6076

In versions of wolfSSL before 3.10.2 the function fp_mul_comba makes it easier to extract RSA key information for a malicious user who has access to view cache on a machine.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.005 (39.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Wolfssl
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

Public proof-of-concept exploits

falsecurity/cache-leak-detector

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6076?: CVE-2017-6076 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wolfssl, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-24.
How severe is CVE-2017-6076?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-6076 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.