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Issue summary: SM2 signature generation uses non-constant-time arithmetic on secret values, forming a timing side-channel. Impact summary: An attacker able to measure SM2 signing times may learn information about the per-signature secret nonce, which over many signatures can, via a lattice / Hidden Number Problem attack, lead to recovery of the private key. CWE: CWE-208: Observable Timing Discrepancy Description: SM2 signature generation computes the signature value using variable-time BIGNUM operations on the secret nonce and the private key, so the time taken to produce an SM2 signature depends on these secret values, forming a timing side-channel. Applications performing SM2 signature generation are affected on all platforms. FIPS Impact: no SM2 is not a FIPS algorithm.

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References

• https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/1c4aed808a7aea32d2…
• https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/20b20628d39b2dcc46…
• https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/419f5cb519721dceed…
• https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/6b90445a56b99a328a…
• https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt

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