VDB
CVE-2018-16869
CVE-2018-16869
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.11% · 28.2th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.11%
28.2th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | nettle | 3.2-1ubuntu0.16.04.2, 3.1.1-4, 3.2-1 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | nettle | 2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1, 0, 2.7.1-1 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | nettle | 0, 3.4-1ubuntu0.1, 3.4-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- Container scanning and Dependency scanning report leaked to unauthorized users (hackerone)
- Container scanning and Dependency scanning report leaked to unauthorized users (hackerone)
- Container scanning and Dependency scanning report leaked to unauthorized users (hackerone)
- 106092 (circl)
- http://cat.eyalro.net/ (circl)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869 (circl)
Timeline
- CVE Published
- Dec 13, 2019 PoC Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16869 third-party-advisory
- http://cat.eyalro.net/ third-party-advisory
- https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2018/007363.html third-party-advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2019/03/msg00021.html third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4990-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16869 third-party-advisory