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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-3011

It allows attackers to extract the ECDSA private key after extensive physical access (and consequently produce a clone).

MEDIUM 4.2EPSS 0.20%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An electromagnetic-wave side-channel issue was discovered on NXP SmartMX / P5x security microcontrollers and A7x secure authentication microcontrollers, with CryptoLib through v2.9. It allows attackers to extract the ECDSA private key after extensive physical access (and consequently produce a clone). This was demonstrated on the Google Titan Security Key, based on an NXP A7005a chip. Other FIDO U2F security keys are also impacted (Yubico YubiKey Neo and Feitian K9, K13, K21, and K40) as well as several NXP JavaCard smartcards (J3A081, J2A081, J3A041, J3D145_M59, J2D145_M59, J3D120_M60, J3D082_M60, J2D120_M60, J2D082_M60, J3D081_M59, J2D081_M59, J3D081_M61, J2D081_M61, J3D081_M59_DF, J3D081_M61_DF, J3E081_M64, J3E081_M66, J2E081_M64, J3E041_M66, J3E016_M66, J3E016_M64, J3E041_M64, J3E145_M64, J3E120_M65, J3E082_M65, J2E145_M64, J2E120_M65, J2E082_M65, J3E081_M64_DF, J3E081_M66_DF, J3E041_M66_DF, J3E016_M66_DF, J3E041_M64_DF, and J3E016_M64_DF).

CVSS 3.1
4.2 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.20% probability · 10th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-670
Affected
ftsafe/k13 · ftsafe/k21 · ftsafe/k40 · ftsafe/k9 · google/titan security key · nxp/3a081 · nxp/a7005a · nxp/j2a081 · nxp/j2d081 m59 · nxp/j2d081 m61 · nxp/j2d082 m60 · nxp/j2d120 m60 · nxp/j2d145 m59 · nxp/j2e081 m64 · nxp/j2e082 m65 · nxp/j2e120 m65 · nxp/j2e145 m64 · nxp/j3a041 · nxp/j3d081 m59 · nxp/j3d081 m59 df · +25 more
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.