CVE-2016-8217

Summary

EMC RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2 has a PKCS#12 Timing Attack Vulnerability. A possible timing attack could be carried out by modifying a PKCS#12 file that has an integrity MAC for which the password is not known. An attacker could then feed the modified PKCS#12 file to the toolkit and guess the current MAC one byte at a time. This is possible because Crypto-J uses a non-constant-time method to compare the stored MAC with the calculated MAC. This vulnerability is similar to the issue described in CVE-2015-2601.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aRSA BSAFE Crypto-J RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2RSA BSAFE Crypto-J RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2affected

Weaknesses

  • PKCS#12 Timing Attack Vulnerability

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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