4.3

CVE-2013-5915: polarssl Cryptographic Issues

Modified
AliasesMGASA-2013-0353UBUNTU-CVE-2013-5915
Published 04-10-2013Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-5915 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in polarssl. EPSS estimates a 2.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.14%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-2782-1

Timeline

  1. 04-10-2013
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The RSA-CRT implementation in PolarSSL before 1.2.9 does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a timing side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

82%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 2.14% on 05-10-2026

05-10-202604-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Mageia3 products
  • pdns< 3.3.1-1.mga3
  • polarssl< 1.3.1-1.mga3
  • ragel< 6.8-1.mga3
Polarssl1 product
  • polarssl≤ 1.2.8 | 0.10.0 | 0.10.1 | 0.11.0 | 0.11.1 | 0.12.0 | 0.12.1 | 0.13.1 | 0.14.0 | 0.14.2 | 0.14.3 | 0.99:pre1 | 0.99:pre3 | 0.99:pre4 | 0.99:pre5 | 1.0.0 | 1.1.0 | 1.1.0:rc0 | 1.1.0:rc1 | 1.1.1 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.3 | 1.1.4 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.8 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.6 | 1.2.7
Ubuntu1 product
  • polarssl< 1.3.4-1

3 vendors · 5 products

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