CVE-2016-8871

MEDIUM

Botan 1.11.29-1.11.32 - Timing Side Channel in RSA OAEP Decryption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://botan.randombit.net/security.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94225

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 32.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (4)
botan_project/botan 1.11.29
botan_project/botan 1.11.30
botan_project/botan 1.11.31
botan_project/botan 1.11.32
Published Oct 28, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026