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CVE-2018-16868

A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1…

Medium4.7EPSS 0.58%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2018-16868, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
redhatCNA (assigner)3.0Medium4.7CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Medium5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.58% · top 52% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.

Weakness

Affected products

References (5)

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