Information Exposure Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.0, <1.0.211


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.64% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471323
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed7 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-5407  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.211 or higher.

Overview

OpenSSL is a SSL/TLS and Crypto toolkit. Deprecated in Mac OS and gone in iOS, this spec gives your project non-deprecated OpenSSL support.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure openssl is vulnerable to timing attack. An attacker with access to mount a local timing attack during the ECDSA signature generation is able to exploit the vulnerability in the ECC scalar mmultiplication to recover the private key.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1