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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 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.

  • Published: Dec 3, 2018
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2018-16869
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.7
  • AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 3.3
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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