CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-16869

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.

3.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.4 / Impact : 4.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

5.7 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.5 / Impact : 4.7

Attack Vector PHYSICAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://cat.eyalro.net/ Technical Description Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092 Broken Link Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-12-03 02:29

Updated : 2023-02-03 02:25

NVD link : CVE-2018-16869

Mitre link : CVE-2018-16869

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-203