CVE-2016-8871

MEDIUM

Botan <1.11.33 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

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)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94225

[Vendor Advisory] https://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2

EPSS 0.0014

EPSS Percentile 33.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Affected Products (5)

botan_project/botan

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Oct 28, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026