Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-16869
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 35.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 4.7
CVSS v2 Score 3.3
References
Products affected by CVE-2018-16869
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:-
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:3.4