CVE-2020-17478

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-17478 · Published 10/08/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-17478 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting p5-crypt-perl (p5-crypt-perl project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 66.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.33 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
p5-crypt-perl p5-crypt-perl_project	`< 0.33`	`0.33`

ECDSA/EC/Point.pm in Crypt::Perl before 0.33 does not properly consider timing attacks against the EC point multiplication algorithm.

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