CVE-2013-4242
GnuPG susceptible to Yarom/Falkner flush+reload cache side-channel attack
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · July 22, 2013
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
GnuPG before 1.4.14, and Libgcrypt before 1.5.3 as used in GnuPG 2.0.x and possibly other products, allows local users to obtain private RSA keys via a cache side-channel attack involving the L3 cache, aka Flush+Reload.
Statement
This issue affects the version of gnupg as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of libgcrypt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More technical details on this flaw are available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988589#c12
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 1.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE not specified