Bug 2543258 (CVE-2026-77696) - CVE-2026-77696 openssl: OpenSSL: Private key recovery via SM2 timing side-channel
Summary: CVE-2026-77696 openssl: OpenSSL: Private key recovery via SM2 timing side-cha...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-77696
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2552539 2552544 2552547 2552552
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-09-29 15:54 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-11 12:01 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:98484 0 None None None 2026-11-11 12:01:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:98588 0 None None None 2026-11-11 11:25:11 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-29 15:54:49 UTC
Issue summary: SM2 signature generation uses non-constant-time arithmetic
on secret values, forming a timing side-channel.

Impact summary: An attacker able to measure SM2 signing times may learn
information about the per-signature secret nonce, which over many signatures
can, via a lattice / Hidden Number Problem attack, lead to recovery of the
private key.

CWE: CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy

Description: SM2 signature generation computes the signature value using
variable-time BIGNUM operations on the secret nonce and the private key, so
the time taken to produce an SM2 signature depends on these secret values,
forming a timing side-channel.

Applications performing SM2 signature generation are affected on all
platforms.

FIPS Impact: no
SM2 is not a FIPS algorithm.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2026-11-11 11:25:08 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:98588 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98588

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-11-11 12:01:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:98484 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:98484


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