Cryptographic issues in OpenSSL - CVE-2013-0169
Published: February 8, 2013 / Updated: April 4, 2025
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The TLS protocol 1.1 and 1.2 and the DTLS protocol 1.0 and 1.2, as used in OpenSSL, OpenJDK, PolarSSL, and other products, do not properly consider timing side-channel attacks on a MAC check requirement during the processing of malformed CBC padding, which allows remote attackers to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets, aka the "Lucky Thirteen" issue. Per http://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html: Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.1d (Affected 1.0.1c, 1.0.1b, 1.0.1a, 1.0.1) Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0k (Affected 1.0.0j, 1.0.0i, 1.0.0g, 1.0.0f, 1.0.0e, 1.0.0d, 1.0.0c, 1.0.0b, 1.0.0a, 1.0.0) Fixed in OpenSSL 0.9.8y (Affected 0.9.8x, 0.9.8w, 0.9.8v, 0.9.8u, 0.9.8t, 0.9.8s, 0.9.8r, 0.9.8q, 0.9.8p, 0.9.8o, 0.9.8n, 0.9.8m, 0.9.8l, 0.9.8k, 0.9.8j, 0.9.8i, 0.9.8h, 0.9.8g, 0.9.8f, 0.9.8d, 0.9.8c, 0.9.8b, 0.9.8a, 0.9.8) Affected users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1e, 1.0.0k or 0.9.8y (The fix in 1.0.1d wasn't complete, so please use 1.0.1e or later)
Affected software
SSL for OpenVMS
Amazon Linux AMI
Slackware Linux
openssl (Alpine package)
mbed TLS
How to mitigate CVE-2013-0169
openssl (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.0k-r0
mbed TLS - addressed in versions 1.1.6, 1.2.6
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
External References
- http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/02/20/security-icedtea-2-1-6-2-2-6-2-3-7-for-openjdk-7-released/
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101366.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136396549913849&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136432043316835&w=2
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1456.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53623
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55108
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55139
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55322
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55350
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55351
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2621
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2622
- http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/TLStiming.pdf
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/737740
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:095
- http://www.matrixssl.org/news.html
- http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20130204.txt
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2013update-1905892.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57778
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029190
- http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHXG
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1735-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA13-051A.html
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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00029.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18841
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19016
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19424
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19540
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19608
- https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.2.5-released
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0169
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c03883001
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0084