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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16869

DEBIAN-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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.699999809265137
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12nettle0, 0, 0
Debian:14nettle0, 0, 0
Debian:11nettle0, 0, 0
Debian:13nettle0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Dec 3, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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