# CVE-2018-10846: A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found.

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-08-22 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] gnutls: version range not reported

## Description

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] gnutls, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/747
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/merge_requests/657
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105138
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10846
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3050
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00022.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3999-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WDYY3R4F5CUTFAMXH2C5NKYFVDEJLTT7/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ILMOWPKMTZAIMK5F32TUMO34XCABUCFJ/

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