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Status published
Medium
CVE-2018-16869
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 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.
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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Affected Vendor
[UNKNOWN]
View all reports →Affected Software
nettle
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