CVE-2024-14041 (GCVE-0-2024-14041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-28 08:05 – Updated: 2026-07-28 12:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ML-KEM (Kyber) decapsulation leaks private key information through non-constant-time division in message decoding and ciphertext compression (KyberSlash)
Summary
In Bouncy Castle for Java from 1.73 to before 1.78, three ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) routines divided secret-derived polynomial coefficients by the modulus q: Poly.toMsg, which decodes the decrypted message, and the ciphertext compression routines Poly.compressPoly and PolyVec.compressPolyVec. An attacker able to measure the timing of a large number of decapsulations performed with the same long-term private key can recover that key. These are the KyberSlash1 (Poly.toMsg) and KyberSlash2 (ciphertext compression) divisions. Compression performed during encapsulation operates on values that become the public ciphertext and is not affected.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-208 - Observable Timing Discrepancy
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2024-14041 | vendor-advisory |
| https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/5adb2c5c5… | patch |
| https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/159024717… | patch |
| https://kyberslash.cr.yp.to/ | technical-description |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-JAVA |
Affected:
1.73 , < 1.78
(maven)
|
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