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Information Exposure Affecting openssl Open this link in a new tab package, versions >=1.0.0, <1.0.211

0.0
medium

  • Exploit Maturity

    Proof of concept

  • Attack Complexity

    High

  • Confidentiality

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471323

  • published

    2 Oct 2019

  • disclosed

    7 Nov 2018

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 7 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-5407 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link 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.