User Enumeration Affecting nettle package, versions [,3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.01% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETTLE-2318989
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed14 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-6489  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nettle to version 3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Enumeration. The RSA and DSA decryption code in Nettle makes it easier for attackers to discover private keys via a cache side channel attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1