Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting gnutls package, versions [,3.6.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUTLS-2374575
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-10846  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnutls to version 3.6.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1