VDB

CVE-2018-16869

CVE-2018-16869 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.699999809265137 MEDIUM

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 1.49% · 73.1th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
5.699999809265137
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
1.49%
73.1th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSnettle3.2-1ubuntu0.16.04.2, 3.1.1-4, 3.2-1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSnettle2.7.1-1ubuntu0.1, 0, 2.7.1-1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSnettle0, 3.4-1ubuntu0.1, 3.4-1

Timeline

  • CVE Published
  • Dec 13, 2019 PoC Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 25, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Oct 27, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Dec 29, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Mar 2, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 6, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 11, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jan 13, 2023 EPSS Score

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