CVE

CVE-2017-7526

libgcrypt before version 1.7.8 is vulnerable to a cache side-channel attack resulting into a complete break of RSA-1024 while using the left-to-right method for computing the sliding-window expansion. The same attack is believed to work on RSA-2048 with moderately more computation. This side-channel requires that attacker can run arbitrary software on the hardware where the private RSA key is used.

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS

6.1

Published

Jul 26, 2018

Modified

Jun 17, 2026