---
id: CVE-2024-13176
title: Timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation
summary: |-
  Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow recovering
  the private key exists in the ECDSA signature computation.

  Impact summary: A timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computations
  could allow recovering the pr…
severity: medium
cvss: 4.6
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cvssSource: adp
cwe:
  - CWE-385
vendor: OpenSSL
product: OpenSSL
affected:
  - OpenSSL >= 3.4.0 < 3.4.1
  - OpenSSL >= 3.3.0 < 3.3.3
  - OpenSSL >= 3.2.0 < 3.2.4
  - OpenSSL >= 3.1.0 < 3.1.8
  - OpenSSL >= 3.0.0 < 3.0.16
  - OpenSSL >= 1.1.1 < 1.1.1zb
  - OpenSSL >= 1.0.2 < 1.0.2zl
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2025-01-27T20:21:21.345629Z'
exploitAvailable: true
published: '2025-01-20'
updated: '2026-11-06'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-06T21:43:11.440Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13176'
references:
  - url: 'https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20250120.txt'
    label: OpenSSL Advisory
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/77c608f4c8857e63e98e66444e2e761c9627916f
    label: 3.4.1 git commit
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/392dcb336405a0c94486aa6655057f59fd3a0902
    label: 3.3.3 git commit
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/4b1cb94a734a7d4ec363ac0a215a25c181e11f65
    label: 3.2.4 git commit
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/2af62e74fb59bc469506bc37eb2990ea408d9467
    label: 3.1.8 git commit
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/07272b05b04836a762b4baa874958af51d513844
    label: 3.0.16 git commit
  - url: >-
      https://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-releases/commit/a2639000db19878d5d89586ae7b725080592ae86
    label: 1.1.1zb git commit
  - url: >-
      https://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-releases/commit/0d5fd1ab987f7571e2c955d8d8b638fc0fb54ded
    label: 1.0.2zl git commit
tags:
  - cve.org
  - exploit-available
epss: 0.00644
epssPercentile: 0.51183
exploits:
  github: 1
  githubRepos:
    - 'https://github.com/Haomin-Yu/cve-2024-13176-timing-analysis'
  checkedAt: '2026-11-09T19:56:23.259Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-11-06T22:04:56.305Z'
---

## Overview

Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow recovering
the private key exists in the ECDSA signature computation.

Impact summary: A timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computations
could allow recovering the private key by an attacker. However, measuring
the timing would require either local access to the signing application or
a very fast network connection with low latency.

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. For that reason
the severity of this vulnerability is Low.

The FIPS modules in 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.

## Affected

- `OpenSSL >= 3.4.0 < 3.4.1`
- `OpenSSL >= 3.3.0 < 3.3.3`
- `OpenSSL >= 3.2.0 < 3.2.4`
- `OpenSSL >= 3.1.0 < 3.1.8`
- `OpenSSL >= 3.0.0 < 3.0.16`
- `OpenSSL >= 1.1.1 < 1.1.1zb`
- `OpenSSL >= 1.0.2 < 1.0.2zl`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.