CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-1000385

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2017-12-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-203

Description

The Erlang otp TLS server answers with different TLS alerts to different error types in the RSA PKCS #1 1.5 padding. This allows an attacker to decrypt content or sign messages with the server's private key (this is a variation of the Bleichenbacher attack).

Affected configurations

• erlang erlang\/otp 18.3.4.7 • erlang erlang\/otp 19.3.6.4 • erlang erlang\/otp 20.1.7 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness

References