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CVE-2018-16869

Published: Dec 3, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

4.7

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

[UNKNOWN]

nettle

affected
n/a

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-203

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Physical

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

106092
vdb-entry
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