vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: 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 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 3, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
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
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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