CVE-2018-16869 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2018-16869 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 03/12/2018 | CVE Updated: 05/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2018
Source: redhat | Vendor: [UNKNOWN] | Product: nettle
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2018-16869 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.

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: n/a
Vector: n/a

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Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-203
CWE Name: CWE-203
Source: [UNKNOWN]

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).