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CVE-2016-8871

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-10-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

Affected products

• randombit botan: 1.11.29, 1.11.30, 1.11.31, 1.11.32

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94225
• https://botan.randombit.net/security.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94225
• https://botan.randombit.net/security.html

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