# CVE-2024-3296: Rust-openssl: timing based side-channel can lead to a bleichenbacher style attack

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-04-04 · Updated: 2026-02-25

## Affected

- rust-openssl: from 3.2.0
- 389-ds:1.4/389-ds-base: version range not reported
- python3.12-cryptography: version range not reported
- 389-ds-base: version range not reported
- keylime-agent-rust: version range not reported
- python3.12-cryptography: version range not reported

## Description

A timing-based side-channel flaw exists in the rust-openssl package, which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher-style attack. To achieve successful decryption, an attacker would have to be able to send a large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects the legacy PKCS#1v1.5 RSA encryption padding mode.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rust-openssl, 389-ds:1.4/389-ds-base, python3.12-cryptography or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3296
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269723

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