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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-16868

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.

MEDIUM 5.6EPSS 0.58%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.58%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
5.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.58% probability · 46th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-203
Affected
gnu/gnutls
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.