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CVE-2017-9526

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-9526 describes a vulnerability in Libgcrypt versions prior to 1.7.7, specifically affecting the EdDSA signing process in products like GnuPG. An attacker who can observe side-channel information during signing could recover the long-term secret key. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) requires high attack complexity (AC:H) but allows for full confidentiality impact (C:H) without user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:libgcrypt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-9526Low

libgcrypt: Possible timing attack on EdDSA session key

Jun 1, 2017

References

bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
git.gnupg.org / cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
git.gnupg.org / cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3880
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
securityfocus.com / bid/99046
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry