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CVE-2018-168694.7MediumCWE-203

CVE-2018-16869: Nettle Project vulnerability

Nettle Project · nettle

Affected: Nettle Project · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

1.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
74th percentile
050100

Higher than 74% of scored CVEs

4.7MediumCVSS 3.0
LowMedium

DescriptionCVE.org

A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way nettle handles endian conversion of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run a process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this flaw extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

  • [UNKNOWN] · nettleVersions not stated

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Exploitation
Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Published
December 2018

CoverageNo articles yet

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