CVE-2016-8217 (GCVE-0-2016-8217)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-03 07:24 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:13
VLAI
Summary
EMC RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2 has a PKCS#12 Timing Attack Vulnerability. A possible timing attack could be carried out by modifying a PKCS#12 file that has an integrity MAC for which the password is not known. An attacker could then feed the modified PKCS#12 file to the toolkit and guess the current MAC one byte at a time. This is possible because Crypto-J uses a non-constant-time method to compare the stored MAC with the calculated MAC. This vulnerability is similar to the issue described in CVE-2015-2601.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • PKCS#12 Timing Attack Vulnerability
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540066/30/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95831 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037732 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a RSA BSAFE Crypto-J RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2 Affected: RSA BSAFE Crypto-J RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2
Date Public
2017-02-03 00:00
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