Medium
Security advisory
LibTomCrypt through 1.18.1 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. 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
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12437
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
LibTomCrypt through 1.18.1 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. 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:CVE-2018-12437
Complete source record
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