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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-11683

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-11683

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Sept 2020, 14:15 UTC

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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