Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting nginx-mod-stream package, versions <1:1.14.1-1.el7at


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NGINXMODSTREAM-3375810
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed23 Nov 2017

Introduced: 23 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-1000385  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-300  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 nginx-mod-stream to version 1:1.14.1-1.el7at or higher.
This issue was patched in RHBA-2019:0453.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nginx-mod-stream package and not the nginx-mod-stream package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Erlang otp TLS server answers with different TLS alerts to different error types in the RSA PKCS #1 1.5 padding. This allows an attacker to decrypt content or sign messages with the server's private key (this is a variation of the Bleichenbacher attack).