Medium severity · published Aug 22, 2018
CVE-2018-10846
A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found
5.6
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GN
Gnutls · Gnu
before 3.6.12 · source: vendor, NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31; 32 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 18.10; 19.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10846
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10846
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105138
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3050
Broken Link
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10846
Third Party Advisory
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/747
Issue Tracking
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/merge_requests/657
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