CVE-2016-8217

LOW

EMC RSA BSAFE Crypto-J <6.2.2 - Timing Attack

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

EMC RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2 has a PKCS#12 Timing Attack Vulnerability. A possible timing attack could be carried out by modifying a PKCS#12 file that has an integrity MAC for which the password is not known. An attacker could then feed the modified PKCS#12 file to the toolkit and guess the current MAC one byte at a time. This is possible because Crypto-J uses a non-constant-time method to compare the stored MAC with the calculated MAC. This vulnerability is similar to the issue described in CVE-2015-2601.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540066/30/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95831
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037732

Scores

CVSS v3 3.7
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 51.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (2)
dell/bsafe_crypto-j < 6.2.2
n/a/RSA BSAFE Crypto-J RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2 RSA BSAFE Crypto-J RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2
Published Feb 03, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026