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CVE-2018-16868 Details

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.

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-203Observable Discrepancy[email protected]
CWE-203Observable Discrepancy[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gnu gnutls
<= 3.6.4

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-16868
NVD Published Date:
Dec 3, 2018
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2018-16868 Details - Not Deferred