CVE-2020-25657Covert Timing Channel in Fedora

Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 46.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 12
Latest updateFeb 5

Description

A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 Ciphertext. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

Also affects: Fedora 33, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
m2crypto Bleichenbacher timing attack - incomplete fix for CVE-2020-256572024-02-05
GHSA
GHSA-2j9v-8g47-mxh2: A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the ti2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-25657: A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the ti2021-01-12
CVEList
CVE-2020-25657: A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the ti2021-01-12

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
m2crypto: Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API - incomplete fix for CVE-2020-256572023-12-13
Microsoft
A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 Ciphertext. The2021-01-12
Red Hat
m2crypto: bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API2020-11-13
Debian
CVE-2020-25657: m2crypto - A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable...2020

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-25657 m2crypto: bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API2020-10-20
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