Timing Side-Channel in SM2 Signature Generation (OpenSSL OpenSSL)

CVE-2026-77696
LOW 3.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 34 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
openssl
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Issue summary: SM2 signature generation uses non-constant-time arithmetic on secret values, forming a timing side-channel. Impact summary: An attacker able to measure SM2 signing times may learn information about the per-signature secret nonce, which over many signatures can, via a lattice / Hidden Number Problem attack, lead to recovery of the private key. CWE: CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy Description: SM2 signature generation computes the signature value using variable-time BIGNUM operations on the secret nonce and the private key, so the time taken to produce an SM2 signature depends on these secret values, forming a timing side-channel. Applications performing SM2 signature generation are affected on all platforms. FIPS Impact: no SM2 is not a FIPS algorithm.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-208 — Observable Timing Discrepancy

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
OpenSSL · OpenSSLaffected 4.0.0 < 4.0.3 ; affected 3.6.0 < 3.6.5 ; affected 3.5.0 < 3.5.9 ; affected 3.4.0 < 3.4.8 ; affected 3.0.0 < 3.0.23 ; affected 1.1.1 < 1.1.1zj

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD