CVE-2016-8871 Information

Description

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94225 https://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.2