icon

We found results for “

CVE-2018-16869

Good to know:

icon
icon

Date: December 3, 2018

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.

Language: DEBIAN

Severity Score

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Cryptographic Issues

CWE-310

Observable Discrepancy

CWE-203

Top Fix

icon

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version nettle_3.4.1rc1

Learn More

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
Additional information:

Do you need more information?

Contact Us