Bug 2507933 (CVE-2024-14041) - CVE-2024-14041 bouncycastle: Bouncy Castle for Java: Private key recovery via timing side-channel in ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) routines
Summary: CVE-2024-14041 bouncycastle: Bouncy Castle for Java: Private key recovery via...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-14041
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-28 09:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-11 12:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-28 09:01:27 UTC
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 attacker able to measure the timing of a large number of decapsulations performed with the same long-term private key can recover that key. These are the KyberSlash1 (Poly.toMsg) and KyberSlash2 (ciphertext compression) divisions. Compression performed during encapsulation operates on values that become the public ciphertext and is not affected.


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