CVE-2019-1563 — In situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success o
In situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success or failure of a decryption attempt an attacker, after sending a very large number of messages to be decrypted, can recover a CMS/PKCS7 transported encryption key or decrypt any RSA encrypted message th
Published
2019-09-10T17:15:11.890
Last modified
2026-10-08T22:16:52.290
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
01What is this vulnerability?
In situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success or failure of a decryption attempt an attacker, after sending a very large number of messages to be decrypted, can recover a CMS/PKCS7 transported encryption key or decrypt any RSA encrypted message that was encrypted with the public RSA key, using a Bleichenbacher padding oracle attack. Applications are not affected…
02Affected products
No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.
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
- Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
- Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
- Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.
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
- Published: 2019-09-10T17:15:11.890
- Last modified: 2026-10-08T22:16:52.290
09References
- lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00054.html
- lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00072.html
- lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00012.html
- lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00016.html
- packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154467/Slackware-Security-Advisory-openssl-…
- git.openssl.org — https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=08229ad838c50f6…
- git.openssl.org — https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=631f94db0065c78…
- git.openssl.org — https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=e21f8cf78a125cd…
- kc.mcafee.com — https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
- lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00026.html
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