CVE-2018-16868 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-16868

A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

gnutls
Vulnerable Versions:
Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: December 3rd, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)