GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-p52g-cm5j-mjv4 openssl-src subject to Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption
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- 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.
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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