1) Information disclosure

Severity: Low

CVSSv3: 2.9 [CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0737

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information Exposure

Description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists in the RSA key generation algorithm's BN_mod_inverse() and BN_mod_exp_mont() functions due to a cache timing side channel attack. A local attacker can recover the private key.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages.

Vulnerable software versions

Opensuse: 15.0

CPE

• cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0:

External links

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-02/msg00009.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.