CVE-2018-16868

CWE-20312 documents7 sources
Severity
5.6MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 87.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 3
Latest updateMay 13

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 vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:NExploitability: 0.4 | Impact: 4.7

Affected Packages3 packages

Debiangnutls28< 3.6.5-2+3
NVDgnu/gnutls3.6.4
CVEListV5[unknown]/gnutlsn/a

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-qjx3-4wr5-3c93: A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v12022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2018-16868: A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v12018-12-03
OSV
CVE-2018-16868: A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v12018-12-03

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
gnutls: Bleichenbacher-like side channel leakage in PKCS#1 v1.5 verification and padding oracle verification2018-11-30
Debian
CVE-2018-16868: gnutls28 - A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the ...2018

💬Community

6
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16868 gnutls: Bleichenbacher-like side channel leakage in PKCS#1 v1.5 verification and padding oracle verification [fedora-all]2018-12-13
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16868 gnutls: Bleichenbacher-like side channel leakage in PKCS#1 v1.5 verification and padding oracle verification [fedora-all]2018-12-03
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16868 mingw-gnutls: gnutls: Bleichenbacher-like side channel leakage in PKCS#1 v1.5 verification and padding oracle verification [epel-7]2018-12-03
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16868 gnutls30: gnutls: Bleichenbacher-like side channel leakage in PKCS#1 v1.5 verification and padding oracle verification [epel-6]2018-12-03
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16868 mingw-gnutls: gnutls: Bleichenbacher-like side channel leakage in PKCS#1 v1.5 verification and padding oracle verification [fedora-all]2018-12-03
CVE-2018-16868 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.6) | A Bleichenbacher type side-channel | cvebase.io