Vulnerability · Published Feb 15, 2023 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2023-0361

High 7.4

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in gnutls. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 74% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.4High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 26.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A timing side-channel in the handling of RSA ClientKeyExchange messages was discovered in GnuTLS. This side-channel can be sufficient to recover the key encrypted in the RSA ciphertext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption the attacker would need to send a large amount of specially crafted messages to the vulnerable server. By recovering the secret from the ClientKeyExchange message, the attacker would be able to decrypt the application data exchanged over that connection.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8gnutls3.6.16-6.el8_7ALSA-2023:1569
AlmaLinux:9gnutls3.7.6-18.el9_1ALSA-2023:1141
AlmaLinux:8gnutls-c++3.6.16-6.el8_7ALSA-2023:1569
AlmaLinux:9gnutls-c++3.7.6-18.el9_1ALSA-2023:1141
AlmaLinux:8gnutls-dane3.6.16-6.el8_7ALSA-2023:1569
AlmaLinux:9gnutls-dane3.7.6-18.el9_1ALSA-2023:1141
AlmaLinux:8gnutls-devel3.6.16-6.el8_7ALSA-2023:1569
AlmaLinux:9gnutls-devel3.7.6-18.el9_1ALSA-2023:1141
AlmaLinux:8gnutls-utils3.6.16-6.el8_7ALSA-2023:1569
AlmaLinux:9gnutls-utils3.7.6-18.el9_1ALSA-2023:1141
Alpine:v3.20gnutls3.8.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-0361
Alpine:v3.21gnutls3.8.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-0361
Alpine:v3.22gnutls3.8.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-0361
Alpine:v3.23gnutls3.8.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-0361
Alpine:v3.24gnutls3.8.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2023-0361
Debian:12gnutls283.7.8-5DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0361
Debian:13gnutls283.7.8-5DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0361
Debian:14gnutls283.7.8-5DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0361
Rocky Linux:8gnutls0:3.6.16-6.el8_7RLSA-2023:1569
Rocky Linux:9gnutls0:3.7.6-18.el9_1RLSA-2023:1141
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSgnutls283.7.3-4ubuntu1.2USN-5901-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSgnutls283.7.3-4ubuntu1.2UBUNTU-CVE-2023-0361

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a gnutls gnutls-3.7.6

Weakness: CWE-203 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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