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A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14737
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.
osv:CVE-2017-14737
Complete source record
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