Physical Access Vulnerability in IBM 4758: Brute Force Attack on CCA Allows Theft of DES and 3DES Keys

Physical Access Vulnerability in IBM 4758: Brute Force Attack on CCA Allows Theft of DES and 3DES Keys

CVE-2001-0856 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) in IBM 4758 allows an attacker with physical access to the system and Combine_Key_Parts permissions, to steal DES and 3DES keys by using a brute force attack to create a 3DES exporter key.

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