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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-48570

Crypto++ through 8.4 contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. Function FixedSizeAllocatorWithCleanup could write to memory outside of the allocation if the allocated memory was not 16-byte aligned. NOTE: this issue exists because the CVE-2019-14318 fix was intentionally removed for functionality reasons.

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4 Nov 2026, 17:03 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-48570

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Aug 2023, 00:00 UTC

Crypto++ through 8.4 contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. Function FixedSizeAllocatorWithCleanup could write to memory outside of the allocation if the allocated memory was not 16-byte aligned. NOTE: this issue exists because the CVE-2019-14318 fix was intentionally removed for functionality reasons.

osv:CVE-2022-48570
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48570",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Crypto++ through 8.4 contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. Function FixedSizeAllocatorWithCleanup could write to memory outside of the allocation if the allocated memory was not 16-byte aligned. NOTE: this issue exists because the CVE-2019-14318 fix was intentionally removed for functionality reasons.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.804718699Z",
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      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/48xxx/CVE-2022-48570.json",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 505110,
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