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CVE-2018-16868

Published: 12/3/2018 Last updated: 8/5/2024 Reserved: 9/11/2018

A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this to extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.0 4.7 Medium CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Opam packages affected (5)

conf-gnutls conf-mingw-w64-gnutls-i686 conf-mingw-w64-gnutls-x86_64 conf-srt conf-srt-gnutls

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
gnutls [UNKNOWN] n/a

References (10)