Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| [UNKNOWN] / nettle | affected n/a |
CWE
CWE-203
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106092
- http://cat.eyalro.net/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.