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GHSA-p52g-cm5j-mjv4

openssl-src subject to Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2022-4304

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
crates.io openssl-src < 111.25.0 111.25.0
crates.io openssl-src >= 300.0.0, < 300.0.12 300.0.12

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE. For example, in a TLS connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.