CVE-2005-1797

Published May 26, 2005

Last updated 16 years ago

Overview

Description
The design of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), aka Rijndael, allows remote attackers to recover AES keys via timing attacks on S-box lookups, which are difficult to perform in constant time in AES implementations.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.1
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
4.9
Vector string
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Vendor comments

  • Red HatThe OpenSSL Team do not consider this issue to be a practical threat. Conducting an attack such as this has shown to be impractical outside of a controlled lab environment. If the OpenSSL Team decide to produce an update to correct this issue, we will consider including it in a future security update.

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