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CVE-2024-22473 (GCVE-0-2024-22473)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-21 18:13 – Updated: 2024-09-27 16:06
VLAI
Title
Uninitialized TRNG used for ECDSA after EM2/EM3 sleep for VSE devices
Summary
TRNG is used before initialization by ECDSA signing driver when exiting EM2/EM3 on Virtual Secure Vault (VSE) devices. This defect may allow Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation.This issue affects Gecko SDK through v4.4.0.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-21 20:24 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1279 - Cryptographic Operations are run Before Supporting Units are Ready
  • CWE-331 - Insufficient Entropy
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
silabs.com GSDK Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.4.0 (4.4.x and earlier)
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