VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-25657

CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.76%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-01-12
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

A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 Ciphertext. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-385
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references