#VU21045 Padding oracle attack in OpenSSL - CVE-2019-1563
Published: September 11, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21045
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1563
CWE-ID: CWE-310
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
OpenSSL
OpenSSL
Software vendor:
OpenSSL Software Foundation
OpenSSL Software Foundation
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform padding oracle attack.
The vulnerability exists due to possibility to perform a Bleichenbacher padding oracle attack against the RSA key, in situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success or failure of a decryption attempt an attacker. A remote attacker can send a very large number of messages to be decrypted, can recover a CMS/PKCS7 transported encryption key or decrypt any RSA encrypted message that was encrypted with the public RSA key.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.
External links
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=08229ad838c50f644d7e928e2eef147b4308ad64
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=631f94db0065c78181ca9ba5546ebc8bb3884b97
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=e21f8cf78a125cd3c8c0d1a1a6c8bb0b901f893f
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20190910.txt