CVE-2024-14041 ML-KEM (Kyber) decapsulation leaks private key information through non-constant-time division in message decoding and ciphertext compression (KyberSlash)

In Bouncy Castle for Java from 1.73 to before 1.78, three ML-KEM CRYSTALS-Kyber routines divided secret-derived polynomial coefficients by the modulus q: Poly.toMsg, which decodes the decrypted message, and the ciphertext compression routines Poly.compressPoly and PolyVec.compressPolyVec. An...

CVE-2024-14041

Bouncy Castle for Java versions 1.73 to before 1.78 is affected by a timing-side-channel in ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) decapsulation. Three routines divide secret-derived polynomial coefficients by the modulus q: Poly.toMsg (decoding the decrypted message) and the ciphertext compression routines Pol...

Timing Attack

github.com/cloudflare/circl is vulnerable to Timing Attack. The vulnerability is caused due to arithmetic operations during ciphertext compression which leaks sensitive timing information. An attacker can learn parts of secret key by exploiting this vulnerability brute force...