Marvin Attack: potential key recovery through timing sidechannels
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- No fix listed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub.
Summary
The [Marvin Attack] is a timing sidechannel vulnerability which allows performing RSA decryption and signing operations as an attacker with the ability to observe only the time of the decryption operation performed withthe private key. A recent survey of RSA implementations found that the Rust `rsa` crate is one of many implementations vulnerable to this attack. No fixed version is available at this time. [Marvin Attack]: https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | rsa (crates.io) | up to 0.9.6 | — | No fix listed | GHSA-4grx-2x9w-596c |
- rsa (crates.io) Vendor— Affected up to 0.9.6 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-4grx-2x9w-596c
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-4grx-2x9w-596c
References
Sources
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