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CVE-2022-4304: Timing based side channel

February 8, 2023 (updated February 4, 2024)

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

  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4304
  • www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.0.2 before 1.0.2zg, all versions starting from 1.1.1 before 1.1.1t, all versions starting from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8

Fixed versions

  • 1.1.1w
  • 3.0.12

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.1.1w, 3.0.12 or above.

Impact 5.9 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-203: Observable Discrepancy

Source file

conan/openssl/CVE-2022-4304.yml

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