Fix timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation

There is a timing signal of around 300 nanoseconds when the top word of
the inverted ECDSA nonce value is zero. This can happen with significant
probability only for some of the supported elliptic curves. In particular
the NIST P-521 curve is affected. To be able to measure this leak, the
attacker process must either be located in the same physical computer or
must have a very fast network connection with low latency.

Attacks on ECDSA nonce are also known as Minerva attack.

Fixes CVE-2024-13176

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <ppzgs1@gmail.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/26429)

(cherry picked from commit 63c40a66c5dc287485705d06122d3a6e74a6a203)

diff --git a/crypto/bn/bn_exp.c b/crypto/bn/bn_exp.c
index 8700a25a14c9f3cff4ad32247eb3f63c6583f46a..9466e53bef6371e103ed84ce7ae9cec9fa87f301 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/bn/bn_exp.c
+++ b/crypto/bn/bn_exp.c
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ static int MOD_EXP_CTIME_COPY_FROM_PREBUF(BIGNUM *b, int top,
  * out by Colin Percival,
  * http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/)
  */
-int BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime(BIGNUM *rr, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
+int bn_mod_exp_mont_fixed_top(BIGNUM *rr, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
                               const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx,
                               BN_MONT_CTX *in_mont)
 {
@@ -623,10 +623,6 @@ int BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime(BIGNUM *rr, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
     unsigned int t4 = 0;
 #endif
 
-    bn_check_top(a);
-    bn_check_top(p);
-    bn_check_top(m);
-
     if (!BN_is_odd(m)) {
         ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_BN, BN_R_CALLED_WITH_EVEN_MODULUS);
         return 0;
@@ -1146,7 +1142,7 @@ int BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime(BIGNUM *rr, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
             goto err;
     } else
 #endif
-    if (!BN_from_montgomery(rr, &tmp, mont, ctx))
+    if (!bn_from_mont_fixed_top(rr, &tmp, mont, ctx))
         goto err;
     ret = 1;
  err:
@@ -1160,6 +1156,19 @@ int BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime(BIGNUM *rr, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
     return ret;
 }
 
+int BN_mod_exp_mont_consttime(BIGNUM *rr, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
+                              const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx,
+                              BN_MONT_CTX *in_mont)
+{
+    bn_check_top(a);
+    bn_check_top(p);
+    bn_check_top(m);
+    if (!bn_mod_exp_mont_fixed_top(rr, a, p, m, ctx, in_mont))
+        return 0;
+    bn_correct_top(rr);
+    return 1;
+}
+
 int BN_mod_exp_mont_word(BIGNUM *rr, BN_ULONG a, const BIGNUM *p,
                          const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx, BN_MONT_CTX *in_mont)
 {

diff --git a/crypto/ec/ec_lib.c b/crypto/ec/ec_lib.c
index a84e088c1975df8913be8e248901c2cc882b4f7c..eda5c83e558b41889b90b222f0ccf318ef4419f4 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/ec/ec_lib.c
+++ b/crypto/ec/ec_lib.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <openssl/err.h>
 #include <openssl/opensslv.h>
 #include "crypto/ec.h"
+#include "crypto/bn.h"
 #include "internal/nelem.h"
 #include "ec_local.h"
 
@@ -1262,10 +1263,10 @@ static int ec_field_inverse_mod_ord(const EC_GROUP *group, BIGNUM *r,
     if (!BN_sub(e, group->order, e))
         goto err;
     /*-
-     * Exponent e is public.
-     * No need for scatter-gather or BN_FLG_CONSTTIME.
+     * Although the exponent is public we want the result to be
+     * fixed top.
      */
-    if (!BN_mod_exp_mont(r, x, e, group->order, ctx, group->mont_data))
+    if (!bn_mod_exp_mont_fixed_top(r, x, e, group->order, ctx, group->mont_data))
         goto err;
 
     ret = 1;

diff --git a/include/crypto/bn.h b/include/crypto/bn.h
index f8855d846325fcdf0e2a9d674fa7d24eee65a2b6..34244bdf1ad67643e6f9fffcc33ffd49a4620909 100644 (file)
--- a/include/crypto/bn.h
+++ b/include/crypto/bn.h
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ int bn_set_words(BIGNUM *a, const BN_ULONG *words, int num_words);
  */
 int bn_mul_mont_fixed_top(BIGNUM *r, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *b,
                           BN_MONT_CTX *mont, BN_CTX *ctx);
+int bn_mod_exp_mont_fixed_top(BIGNUM *rr, const BIGNUM *a, const BIGNUM *p,
+                              const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx,
+                              BN_MONT_CTX *in_mont);
 int bn_to_mont_fixed_top(BIGNUM *r, const BIGNUM *a, BN_MONT_CTX *mont,
                          BN_CTX *ctx);
 int bn_from_mont_fixed_top(BIGNUM *r, const BIGNUM *a, BN_MONT_CTX *mont,