Bug 2379349 (CVE-2025-52473) - CVE-2025-52473 liboqs: liboqs secret-dependent branching in HQC
Summary: CVE-2025-52473 liboqs: liboqs secret-dependent branching in HQC
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-52473
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2379413 2379412
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-07-10 19:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-11 12:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 19:01:11 UTC
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Multiple secret-dependent branches have been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang for optimization levels above -O0 (-O1, -O2, etc). A proof-of-concept local attack exploits this secret-dependent information to recover the entire secret key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.0.


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