CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16869
5.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-203
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.
Affected configurations
• nettle project nettle (<= 3.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness
References
- http://cat.eyalro.net/ Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://cat.eyalro.net/ Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory