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CVE-2018-16869
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-03T14:29:00.380 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:57.233

Summary

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 products

nettle_project — nettle

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References

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