Medium
Security advisory
A timing side channel was discovered in AT91bootstrap before 3.9.2. It can be exploited by attackers with physical access to forge CMAC values and subsequently boot arbitrary code on an affected system.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11683
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A timing side channel was discovered in AT91bootstrap before 3.9.2. It can be exploited by attackers with physical access to forge CMAC values and subsequently boot arbitrary code on an affected system.
osv:CVE-2020-11683
Complete source record
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