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CVE-2022-4304 MEDIUM

Published: 2023-02-08 | Last Modified: 2025-11-04 | Status: Modified

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

Base Score: 5.9 (MEDIUM)

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

Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityHIGH
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
Confidentiality ImpactHIGH
Integrity ImpactNONE
Availability ImpactNONE

Source: [email protected]

Type: Primary

Exploitability Score: 2.2

Impact Score: 3.6

Weaknesses

Source Type Description
[email protected] Primary
en CWE-203
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 Secondary
en CWE-203

Affected Products

Vendor Product Version Update Type
openssl openssl * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b070c91bc00> Application
openssl openssl * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b06e87c10c0> Application
openssl openssl * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b070c9e4080> Application
stormshield endpoint_security * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b06e9207dc0> Application
stormshield sslvpn * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b06e8250d80> Application
stormshield stormshield_network_security * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b070c9f08c0> Application
stormshield stormshield_network_security * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b070c9f1fc0> Application
stormshield stormshield_network_security * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b070c6a18c0> Application
stormshield stormshield_network_security * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b070c9f2580> Application
stormshield stormshield_network_security * <built-in method update of dict object at 0x7b072ce81780> Application

Affected Configurations

Operator: OR

Vulnerable CPE
Yes cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Operator: OR

Vulnerable CPE
Yes cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:endpoint_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:sslvpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:stormshield_network_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:stormshield_network_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:stormshield_network_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:stormshield_network_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Yes cpe:2.3:a:stormshield:stormshield_network_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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