vulnerability
F5 Networks: K45616155 (CVE-2018-16869): Nettle vulnerability CVE-2018-16869
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | Dec 3, 2018 | Jan 8, 2019 | Dec 8, 2020 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 3, 2018
Added
Jan 8, 2019
Modified
Dec 8, 2020
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.
Solution
f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
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