CVE-2023-0361

HIGH
7.4
CVSS Score
Published: February 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 08:17 PM UTC
7 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraEnterprise Linux

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Severity
HIGH7.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
PoC

Description

A timing side-channel in the handling of RSA ClientKeyExchange messages was discovered in GnuTLS. This side-channel can be sufficient to recover the key encrypted in the RSA ciphertext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption the attacker would need to send a large amount of specially crafted messages to the vulnerable server. By recovering the secret from the ClientKeyExchange message, the attacker would be able to decrypt the application data exchanged over that connection.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.4HIGHCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-203

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