CVE-2016-8871

published 2016-10-28

CVE-2016-8871: 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…

Priority P4 23 medium 6.2 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

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

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
botan_project	botan	—	—
botan_project	botan	—	—
botan_project	botan	—	—
botan_project	botan	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.2 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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