CVE-2016-8871 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

Published: 2016-10-28

Score: 6.2 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.29:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.30:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.31:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:1.11.32:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-9696	In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00136.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94225
https://botan.randombit.net/security.html

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Botan Project Botan

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-10-28T15:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:35:02.147Z

Reserved: 2016-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-8871

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-10-28T15:59:15.470

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-8871

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-200

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