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.
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CVSS Vector Breakdown
Exploitability
AV:PAttack VectorPhysical
AC:HAttack ComplexityHigh
PR:NPrivileges RequiredNone
UI:NUser InteractionNone
Scope
S:CScopeChanged
Impact
C:HConfidentialityHigh
I:LIntegrityLow
A:NAvailabilityNone
Weaknesses
Affected Products
Nettle Project
oss-projectaka nettle
ООО «РусБИТех-Астра»
commercial·RUaka rusbitech-astra
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Exploitability
Official Patch Available
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References
http://cat.eyalro.net/
cat.eyalro.net
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092
securityfocus.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869
bugzilla.redhat.com
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