OP-TEE: RSA-OAEP padding oracle in Hisilicon HPRE driver enables plaintext recovery
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-208.
Summary
OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed as companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm; Cortex-A cores using the TrustZone technology. Starting in version 4.5.0 and prior to version 4.11.0, the RSA-OAEP decryption implementation in the Hisilicon HPRE crypto driver uses non-constant-time `memcmp()` for label hash verification and has multiple distinguishable error paths. This creates a Manger-style padding oracle that allows an attacker to recover RSA-OAEP plaintext with approximately 1000-2000 adaptive chosen ciphertext queries. Only affects plat-d06 with `CFG_HISILICON_ACC_V3=y`, which seems to be disabled by default. Version 4.11.0 contains a patch. As a workaround, disable Hisilicon HPRE RSA driver with `CFG_HISILICON_ACC_V3=n`.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA optee_os (OP-TEE) Fixed in 4.11.0
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-41514
More Op-tee vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-22796 OP-TEE Trusted OS vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index in the cleanup_shm_refs function CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-29072 OP-TEE has a Use-After-Free race in FF-A shared-memory teardown CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2023-21925 OP-TEE double free in shdr_verify_signature CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
- TI-2026-33359 OP-TEE vulnerable to ECDH private key recovery CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7
- TI-2019-16063 Integer overflow in OP-TEE CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-16062 Integer overflow in OP-TEE CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-41514 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-41514 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-41514 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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