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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-5981

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

Published

Nov 28, 2023

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found that the response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2023-5981
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-5981
CWE-208
CWE-203
EUVD-EUVD-2023-58248
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-58248

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