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


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 0.06% (25th percentile)
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NVD
4.7 medium
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SUSE
4.8 medium
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Red Hat
4.8 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471323
  • published 2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 7 Nov 2018
  • credit Unknown

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.