CVE-2016-8871

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8871
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8871.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8871
Published
2016-10-28T15:59:15Z
Modified
2026-10-24T10:31:05Z
Severity
  • 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/randombit/botan

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/randombit/botan
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "1.11.29"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.11.29"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "1.11.30"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.11.30"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "1.11.31"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.11.31"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "1.11.32"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "1.11.32"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.11.29
1.11.30
1.11.31
1.11.32

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8871.json"