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
- 2016-10-28T15:59:15.470Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T12:41:54.488437Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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
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IntroducedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "source": "CPE_STRING", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "1.11.29" }, { "last_affected": "1.11.29" }, { "introduced": "1.11.30" }, { "last_affected": "1.11.30" }, { "introduced": "1.11.31" }, { "last_affected": "1.11.31" }, { "introduced": "1.11.32" }, { "last_affected": "1.11.32" } ] }