CVE-2025-14972 (GCVE-0-2025-14972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-15 14:35 – Updated: 2026-05-15 15:40
VLAI?
Title
Insufficient DPA countermeasure reseeding
Summary
* Countermeasures for DPA within SYMCRYPTO engine on SixG301xxx devices are not sufficiently random and will eventually repeat. * KSU keys using SYMCRYPTO will be impacted by this vulnerability.
Severity ?
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://community.silabs.com/068Vm00000M3cAX third-party-advisorypermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
silabs.com Simplicity SDK Affected: 0 , ≤ *.* (semver)
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