CVE-2018-16869
Medium
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.
SeverityMedium
CVSS5.7
Exploit probability—
ProductNettle
PublishedDec 3, 2018
First seenDec 3, 2018
Weakness typeCWE-203CWE-203
How to fix
Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| nettle_project nettle | v ≤ 3.4 | — |
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