CVE-2018-16868 MEDIUM

CVE-2018-16868

Vendor [Unknown]
Product gnutls
Weakness CWE-203
Published December 3, 2018
Last update August 5, 2024

CVSS base score

4.7/10
Attack vector Physical
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 3, 2018 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated

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