CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8871

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2016-10-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-10-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

Affected configurations

• botan project botan 1.11.29 • botan project botan 1.11.30 • botan project botan 1.11.31 • botan project botan 1.11.32

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References