Security Advisory
CVE-2018-16869
5.7
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 3, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory