CVE-2016-8871

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.2 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-10-28

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Botan (Botan Project)

References

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