CVE-2018-16869
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16869
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16869.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16869
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-12-03T14:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Severity
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- 5.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
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