CVE Alert: CVE-2025-52473
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-52473
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Multiple secret-dependent branches have been identified in the reference implementation of the HQC key encapsulation mechanism when it is compiled with Clang for optimization levels above -O0 (-O1, -O2, etc). A proof-of-concept local attack exploits this secret-dependent information to recover the entire secret key. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.0.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
7/10/2025, 7:15:25 PM
⚠️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/commit/4215362acbf69b88fe1777c4c052f154e29f9897
- https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/security/advisories/GHSA-qq3m-rq9v-jfgm
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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