VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-10845

CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.62%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-08-22
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

It was found that the GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-384 was vulnerable to a Lucky thirteen style attack. Remote attackers could use this flaw to conduct distinguishing attacks and plain text recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data using crafted packets.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
  • CWE-385: Covert Timing Channel

Primary references