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CVE-2018-16868 — A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the

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 som

CVSS
4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.04% (top 87.50%)
CWE
CWE-203
Published
2018-12-03T14:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T10:32:54.146Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
[UNKNOWN]gnutlsn/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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