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CVE-2017-14737

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1...

5.5 MediumFix available

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

0.32%Unchanged since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.5

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Record
CVE-2017-14737
CVSS 3.1
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
2.1 LowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Record
CVE-2017-14737
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-6233 No score

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Record
EUVD-2017-6233
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-xr8r-2cxg-2rgp 5.5

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1...

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Record
GHSA-xr8r-2cxg-2rgp
CVSS 3.1
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 5.5

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Record
CVE-2017-14737
CVSS 3.1
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-14737 5.5

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14737
CVSS 3.1
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0422 No score

Updated botan packages fix security vulnerability

In the Montgomery exponentiation code, a table of precomputed values is used. An attacker able to analyze which cache lines were accessed (perhaps via an active attack such as Prime+Probe) could recover information about the exponent (CVE-2017-14737).

Record
MGASA-2017-0422
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10594-1 No score

Botan-2.18.1-1.3 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the Botan-2.18.1-1.3 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10594-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2855-1 No score

Security update for Botan

This update for Botan fixes the following issues:

This security issue was fixed:

  • CVE-2017-14737: A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan allowed a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occured because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key (bsc#1060433).
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2855-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
botan1.10
Debian:7
before 1.10.5-1+deb7u4, plus listed versions
1.10.5-11.10.5-1+deb7u11.10.5-1+deb7u21.10.5-1+deb7u3
1.10.5-1+deb7u4
botan1.10
Debian:9
before 1.10.17-1+deb9u1, plus listed versions
1.10.16-11.10.17-0.1
1.10.17-1+deb9u1
botan
Mageia:5
before 1.10.17-1.mga5
1.10.17-1.mga5
botan
Mageia:6
before 1.10.17-1.mga6
1.10.17-1.mga6
Botan
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 1.10.9-4.3.1
1.10.9-4.3.1
Botan
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
before 1.10.9-4.3.1
1.10.9-4.3.1
botan1.10
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
before 1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1, plus listed versions
1.10.5-11.10.5-1ubuntu11.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1
1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1
botan1.10
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.10.10-61.10.12-1
None known
Botan
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 2.18.1-1.3
2.18.1-1.3

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-14737 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Botan Project Botan, published September 26, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.32%, the 24th percentile. Fixed in botan1.10 1.10.5-1+deb7u4.

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