CVE-2016-0702
Public on 2016-03-03
Modified on 2016-04-28
Description
A side-channel attack was found that makes use of cache-bank conflicts on the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. An attacker who has the ability to control code in a thread running on the same hyper-threaded core as the victim's thread that is performing decryption, could use this flaw to recover RSA private keys.
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | openssl | 2016-03-10 | ALAS-2016-661 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 2.6 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 5.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |