CVE-2024-3296: Red Hat Rust-openssl: timing based side-channel can lead to a bleichenbacher style attack
This Red Hat advisory covers CVE-2024-3296.
- CVE-2024-3296
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- Medium, CVSS 5.9
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
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Affected products & platforms
Description
A timing-based side-channel flaw exists in the rust-openssl package, which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher-style attack. To achieve successful decryption, an attacker would have to be able to send a large number of trial messages for decryption.
The vulnerability affects the legacy PKCS#1v1.5 RSA encryption padding mode. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux remains unaffected by this vulnerability since it does not include the vulnerable codebase or version.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.9 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N). Weakness: CWE-208.
Red Hat lists Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 as not affected.
Text from the source record.
How to fix CVE-2024-3296
Vendor guidance
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
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