An issue was discovered in the mirage-crypto-ec package before 2.4.0 for OCaml. There is a timing side channel for NIST elliptic-curve scalar multiplication: the time required for a lookup can depend on a secret.

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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Title Timing Side Channel in NIST Elliptic‑Curve Scalar Multiplication

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Description An issue was discovered in the mirage-crypto-ec package before 2.4.0 for OCaml. There is a timing side channel for NIST elliptic-curve scalar multiplication: the time required for a lookup can depend on a secret.
Weaknesses CWE-208
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-09T13:10:11.317Z

Reserved: 2026-09-09T04:21:37.242Z

Link: CVE-2026-87737

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-09T13:10:07.200Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-09T05:18:21.020

Modified: 2026-09-09T16:04:24.933

Link: CVE-2026-87737

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-09T11:30:09Z

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