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CVE-2025-52473

liboqs secret-dependent branching in HQC reference implementation when compiled with Clang 17-20 PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Multiple secret-dependent branches have been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang for optimization levels above -O0 (-O1, -O2, etc). A proof-of-concept local attack exploits this secret-dependent information to recover the entire secret key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
open-quantum-safe / liboqsaffected < 0.14.0

CWE

CWE-200

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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