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CVE-2018-16869 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  5.7 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  Red Hat, Inc.
Base Score:  4.7 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy cwe source acceptance level NIST   Red Hat, Inc.  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		Up to (including)
3.4

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-16869
NVD Published Date:
12/03/2018
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.