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    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 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.

    Published:Nov 30, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Dec 3, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.00056
    CVSS Score:5.6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Gnutls

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-189 Black Box Reverse Engineering

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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