CVE-2018-16869

libhogweed4: A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way nettle handles endian conversion...

CVE-2018-16869 is fixed in 3 products on 1 platform, first by libhogweed4 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, released June 9, 2021. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
n/a
Low
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0150
74th percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
libhogweed4 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 libhogweed4 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jun 9, 2021
libnettle6 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 libnettle6 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jun 9, 2021
nettle-bin · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 nettle-bin 3.4.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Jun 9, 2021

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