CVE-2018-15769

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite versions prior to 4.0.11 (in 4.0.x series) and versions prior to 4.1.6.2 (in 4.1.x series) contain a key management error issue. A malicious TLS server could potentially cause a Denial Of Service (DoS) on TLS clients during the handshake when a very large prime value is sent to the TLS client, and an Ephemeral or Anonymous Diffie-Hellman cipher suite (DHE or ADH) is used.

Affected products

Dell Bsafe: from 4.0.0 before 4.0.11; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.6.2 — fixed in 4.0.11, 4.1.6.2
Oracle Corporation Oracle Application Testing Suite: 13.3.0.1
Oracle Communications Analytics: 12.1.1
Oracle Communications Ip Service Activator: 7.3.0, 7.4.0
Oracle Core Rdbms: 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1, 18c, 19c
Oracle Corporation Enterprise Manager Ops Center: 12.3.3, 12.4.0
Oracle Goldengate Application Adapters: 12.3.2.1.0
Oracle Corporation JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools: 9.2
Oracle Real User Experience Insight: 13.1.2.1, 13.2.3.1, 13.3.1.0
Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server: 15.0.3, 16.0.3.0
Oracle Corporation Security Service: 11.1.1.9.0, 12.1.3.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0
Oracle Corporation TimesTen In-Memory Database: before 18.1.4.1.0 — fixed in 18.1.4.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Dell Bsafe 4.0.11, 4.1.6.2; Oracle Corporation TimesTen In-Memory Database 18.1.4.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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