cve/2018/CVE-2018-16869.md

CVE-2018-16869

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.

POC

Reference

• http://cat.eyalro.net/

Github

• https://github.com/flyrev/security-scan-ci-presentation