National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2005-1797
Orirignal release date: 2005-05-26
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The design of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), aka Rijndael, allows remote attackers to recover AES keys via timing attacks on S-box lookups, which are difficult to perform in constant time in AES implementations.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: design,race
    Impact Type: sec_prot

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    OpenSSL (OpenSSL Project)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1797