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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-25658: python-rsa: bleichenbacher timing oracle attack against RSA decryption

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-25658: python-rsa: bleichenbacher timing oracle attack against RSA decryption

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/12/2020
Created
03/05/2021
Added
03/04/2021
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-python-rsa

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