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CVE-2018-16869
A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way nettle handles endian conversion of RSA decrypted…
Medium4.7EPSS 1.5%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% 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 (3)
- 106092 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://cat.eyalro.net/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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