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CVE-2018-16868

MEDIUM

5.6

Description

A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this to extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.6

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack VectorPHYSICAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published12/3/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:gnutls

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-203CWE-203

References

http://cat.eyalro.net/(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00068.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106080(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16868(secalert@redhat.com)

http://cat.eyalro.net/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00068.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106080(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16868(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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