CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-10846

5.6 MEDIUM Published 2018-08-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-327, CWE-385

Description

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.

Affected configurations

• gnu gnutls (< 3.6.12) • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 19.04 • fedoraproject fedora 31 • fedoraproject fedora 32 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness
  • CWE-385 Covert Timing Channel weakness

References