CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2020-27209
High (7.5) in micro-ecc project micro-ecc. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The ECDSA operation of the micro-ecc library 1.0 is vulnerable to simple power analysis attacks which allows an adversary to extract the private ECC key.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- micro-ecc_project:micro-ecc
References
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/640
- https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/commit/1b5f5cea5145c96dd8791b9b2c41424fc74c2172
- https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/releases
- https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/de/das-institut/wissenschaftliche-exzellenz/security-and-trust-in-open-source-security-tokens.html
- https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/FirmwareProtection.html