Security advisory

{
  "id": "a31ff911150799dad72ce8b26c23a296db5e497698bbda8e9124887201f80373",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-17478",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-17478",
    "summary": "ECDSA/EC/Point.pm in Crypt::Perl before 0.33 does not properly consider timing attacks against the EC point multiplication algorithm.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-17478",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-17478",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-17478"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/fgasper/p5-crypt-perl",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ba42894cdbda4eecc682f4be227452acabb3c471"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:p5-crypt-perl_project:p5-crypt-perl:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.33"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.32",
            "0.31",
            "0.30",
            "0.26",
            "0.17",
            "0.15",
            "0.13",
            "0.12",
            "0.11",
            "0.032",
            "0.031",
            "0.022",
            "0.021",
            "0.02",
            "0.01"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17478.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:01.505245873Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/FGasper/p5-Crypt-Perl/compare/0.32...0.33"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-17478",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383207,
  "published_at": "2020-08-10T18:15:13.297+00:00"
}