# CVE-2025-7396: Curve25519 Blinding

- Severity: CVSS 5.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-07-18 · Updated: 2025-07-21

## Affected

- wolfSSL: version range not reported

## Description

In wolfSSL release 5.8.2 blinding support is turned on by default for Curve25519 in applicable builds. The blinding configure option is only for the base C implementation of Curve25519. It is not needed, or available with; ARM assembly builds, Intel assembly builds, and the small Curve25519 feature. While the side-channel attack on extracting a private key would be very difficult to execute in practice, enabling blinding provides an additional layer of protection for devices that may be more susceptible to physical access or side-channel observation.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wolfSSL, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/blob/master/ChangeLog.md#wolfssl-release-582-july-17-2025

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