# 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

- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-12-03 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

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

## 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.

## 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

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106080
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00068.html
- http://cat.eyalro.net/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16868

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