CVE-2018-16869
MEDIUMEPSS 71th pctlDescription
A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way nettle handles endian conversion of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run a process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this flaw extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 71% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
Other CWE-203 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all
| CVE | Severity | CVSS | EPSS | Exploited | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-5753 | Medium | 5.6 | 94% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2003-0190 | Medium | 5.0 | 77% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2017-5715 | Medium | 5.6 | 74% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2018-3639 | Medium | 5.5 | 61% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-28770 | High | 7.5 | 58% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2004-1602 | Medium | 5.0 | 31% | - | - |
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