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botan — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12435

Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Products
botan
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.6.0-3
CVEs
CVE-2018-12435
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:46 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12435

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Jun 2018, 02:29 UTC

Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12435

botan

Fixed versions: 2.6.0-3

botan

Fixed versions: 2.6.0-3

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12435",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.",
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          },
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      "modified": "2026-10-23T18:03:46.898452309Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 422211,
  "published_at": "2018-06-15T02:29:00.377+00:00"
}