CVE-2018-16869
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.7 Medium
- Published
- Dec 3, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2018
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 4.7 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
nettle[UNKNOWN] |
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References
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