Covert Timing Channel The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cri-tools  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-CRITOOLS-5951430
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed9 Nov 2020

Introduced: 9 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-25658  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-385  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cri-tools package and not the cri-tools package as distributed by RHEL.

It was found that python-rsa is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks. An attacker can use this flaw via the RSA decryption API to decrypt parts of the cipher text encrypted with RSA.