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Vulnerability details: VCID-dpu2-4w42-kygw
Vulnerability ID VCID-dpu2-4w42-kygw
Aliases CVE-2024-1544
Summary Generating the ECDSA nonce k samples a random number r and then truncates this randomness with a modular reduction mod n where n is the order of the elliptic curve. Meaning k = r mod n. The division used during the reduction estimates a factor q_e by dividing the upper two digits (a digit having e.g. a size of 8 byte) of r by the upper digit of n and then decrements q_e in a loop until it has the correct size. Observing the number of times q_e is decremented through a control-flow revealing side-channel reveals a bias in the most significant bits of k. Depending on the curve this is either a negligible bias or a significant bias large enough to reconstruct k with lattice reduction methods. For SECP160R1, e.g., we find a bias of 15 bits.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 3.7
Risk 1.9
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/7020
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-08-27T19:14:00Z/ Found at https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/7020
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases/tag/v5.7.2-stable
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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adjacent_network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-08-27T19:14:00Z/ Found at https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases/tag/v5.7.2-stable
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.22871
EPSS Score 0.00076
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:37:13.506703+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0