Vulnerability dependency

[AlexD10S]

Issue open to track an issue with one of our dependencies when running cargo deny check advisories:

Advisory: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0071

Impact

Due to a non-constant-time implementation, information about the private key is leaked through timing information which is observable over the network. An attacker may be able to use that information to recover the key.

Patches

No patch is yet available, however work is underway to migrate to a fully constant-time implementation.

Workarounds

The only currently available workaround is to avoid using the rsa crate in settings where attackers are able to observe timing information, e.g. local use on a non-compromised computer is fine.

References

This vulnerability was discovered as part of the "[Marvin Attack]", which revealed several implementations of RSA including OpenSSL had not properly mitigated timing sidechannel attacks.

Announcement: RustCrypto/RSA#19 (comment)
Solution: No safe upgrade is available!

 rsa v0.9.6
      └── deno_crypto v0.137.0
          └── pjs-rs v0.1.2
              └── zombienet-orchestrator v0.2.1
                  └── zombienet-sdk v0.2.1
                      └── pop-parachains v0.1.0
                          └── pop-cli v0.1.0

[AlexD10S]

Closed in #215