CVE-2017-13097
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property (IP), as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of Rights Block to remove or relax license requirement. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious cases, enable attack vectors that allow recovery of the entire underlying plaintext IP. Implementations of IEEE P1735 may be weak to cryptographic attacks that allow an attacker to obtain plaintext intellectual property without the key, among other impacts.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe IEEE P1735 standard for protecting electronic design intellectual property contains fundamental cryptographic flaws. Attackers can exploit weaknesses in the encryption methods to recover the underlying plaintext IP without possessing the decryption key, effectively exposing the full proprietary design.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE dataall versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify EDA tools using IP encryptionInventory all Electronic Design Automation software in your environment (such as Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, or similar tools) that include intellectual property protection or encryption features.Affected if Any EDA tool with IP encryption capability is present
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Check for IEEE P1735 implementationConsult your EDA tool documentation or vendor specifications to determine whether the tool implements the IEEE P1735 standard for IP encryption. This information is typically found in product manuals, release notes, or by contacting the vendor.Affected if The tool implements IEEE P1735 for IP protection
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Locate encrypted IP design filesSearch your design directories for encrypted IP file formats (.ip, .enc, .encrypted, or vendor-specific encrypted design files) that were created using the EDA tool's IP protection feature.Affected if Encrypted IP files protected by the EDA tool's encryption exist in your environment
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Verify IP encryption is enabledExamine the EDA tool configuration, project settings, or design flow scripts to determine if IP encryption or P1735-based protection was used to protect designs.Affected if IP encryption based on IEEE P1735 was used to protect designs
Your environment is affected if you use any EDA tool that implements IEEE P1735 encryption to protect intellectual property, regardless of version.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataOrganizations should audit all EDA tool implementations using IEEE P1735, apply vendor patches when available, and consider implementing additional layers of encryption or alternative IP protection mechanisms until standards bodies publish corrected specifications.
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- Implementation16.0 h
- Testing12.0 h
- Review / QA8.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2017-13097 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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