CVE-2018-16869
4.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way nettle handles endian conversion of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run a process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this flaw extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| [UNKNOWN] | nettle | n/a | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-203: CWE-203
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092
- http://cat.eyalro.net/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092
- http://cat.eyalro.net/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869
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