CVE-2026-77696
lowIssue summary: SM2 signature generation uses non-constant-time arithmetic on secret values, forming a timing side-channel.
Vendor / product: Openssl — openssl
Issue summary: SM2 signature generation uses non-constant-time arithmetic on secret values, forming a timing side-channel. Impact summary: An attacker able to measure SM2 signing times may learn information about the per-signature secret nonce, which over many signatures can, via a lattice / Hidden Number Problem attack, lead to recovery of the private key. CWE: CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy Description: SM2 signature generation computes the signature value using variable-time BIGNUM operations on the secret nonce and the private key, so the time taken to produce an SM2 signature depends on these secret values, forming a timing side-channel. Applications performing SM2 signature generation are affected on all platforms. FIPS Impact: no SM2 is not a FIPS algorithm.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
References
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/1c4aed808a7aea32d2d013049c2e0d9fef164fc9 openssl-security@openssl.org
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/20b20628d39b2dcc4677194bd68c7c060fa598cb openssl-security@openssl.org
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/419f5cb519721dceed393dbc524d79e487c72e64 openssl-security@openssl.org
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/6b90445a56b99a328ac1feba058abf976504f440 openssl-security@openssl.org
- https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt openssl-security@openssl.org