CVE-2016-8871 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Project Botan
Severity
6.2MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 66.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 28
Latest updateMay 17
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.5 | Impact: 3.6