CVE-2018-16869

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

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
[UNKNOWN]nettlen/aaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-203: CWE-203

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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