GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-p52g-cm5j-mjv4 openssl-src subject to Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption

MEDIUM Published 2023-02-08 Modified 2025-11-04 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2022-4304
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
openssl-src
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-203
Reviewed
2023-02-08

Affected packages

• crates.io openssl-src: < 111.25.0 → fixed in 111.25.0 • crates.io openssl-src: >= 300.0.0, < 300.0.12 → fixed in 300.0.12

Description

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE. For example, in a TLS connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2022-4304 A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness

References