CVE-2022-4304
MediumCVSS 5.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Very high risk97th percentile - higher than 97% of all known CVEs
Summary
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.
Risk Assessment
In a TLS connection, an attacker who had observed a genuine connection could recover the pre-master secret and thus decrypt application data sent over that connection.
Recommendation
Update OpenSSL to a version containing the fix (3.0.8, 1.1.1t, 1.0.2zg or later) and consider disabling vulnerable RSA padding modes if possible.
Other vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
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- CVE-2017-3731High
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- CVE-2017-3730High
In OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0d, a malicious server can supply bad parameters for a DHE or ECDHE key exchange, leading to the client attempting to dereference a NULL pointer, resulting in a client crash.
- CVE-2016-7054High
In OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0c, TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL crash.
- CVE-2016-7052High
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- CVE-2016-6305High
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- CVE-2016-6304High
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- CVE-2016-6302High
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- CVE-2016-2179High
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- CVE-2016-2176High
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Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS