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
Link | Resource |
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08 | |
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt | Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: openssl
Published: 2023-02-08T19:04:28.890Z
Updated: 2024-02-04T09:06:46
Reserved: 2022-12-06T10:38:40.463Z
Link: CVE-2022-4304
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-02-08T20:15:23.887
Modified: 2024-02-04T09:15:08.627
Link: CVE-2022-4304
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE