CVE-2018-16868
MEDIUM
5.6
CVSS Score
Published: December 3, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:44 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGnutls
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Severity
MEDIUM5.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://cat.eyalro.net/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEBroken LinkMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEBroken LinkMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00068.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106080x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16868CVSS
- Attack Vector
- PHYSICAL
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- LOW
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-203
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