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CVE-2023-5981 Detail

Description

A vulnerability was found that the response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/19/3 CVE Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0155 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0319 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0399 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0451 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0533 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1383 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2094 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5981 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248445 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2023-10-23 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00016.html CVE Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7ZEIOLORQ7N6WRPFXZSYDL2MC4LP7VFV/ CVE Broken Link 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GNXKVR5YNUEBNHAHM5GSYKBZX4W2HMN2/ CVE Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-5981
NVD Published Date:
11/28/2023
NVD Last Modified:
03/25/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.