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CVE-2016-8871
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.2
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-10-28T15:59:15.470 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:06.817

Summary

In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

Affected products

botan_project — botan

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References

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