Information Exposure Affecting botan package, versions [1.11.29,1.11.32]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BOTAN-2370629
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Oct 2016

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for botan.

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.

CVSS Scores

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