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CVE-2018-16869

MEDIUM

5.7

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.7

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorPHYSICAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published12/3/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

nettle_project:nettle

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-203CWE-203

References

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869(secalert@redhat.com)

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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