Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package botan  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BOTAN-10075359
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed28 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-8871  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.