Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-0497
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14 allows remote attackers to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a timing-based side-channel attack. This vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix (with a wrong SHA-384 calculation) for CVE-2013-0169.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4267-1.NASL description It was discovered that mbedtls has a bounds-check bypass through an integer overflow that can be used by an attacked to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-18187) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability where an attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted certificate chain that is mishandled during RSASSA-PSS signature verification within a TLS or DTLS session. (CVE-2018-0487) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability where an attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption) via a crafted application packet within a TLS or DTLS session. (CVE-2018-0488) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a timing-based side-channel attack. (CVE-2018-0497) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability that allows local users to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a cache-based side-channel attack. (CVE-2018-0498). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 133521 published 2020-02-06 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133521 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : mbedtls vulnerabilities (USN-4267-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4267-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(133521); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/10"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-18187", "CVE-2018-0487", "CVE-2018-0488", "CVE-2018-0497", "CVE-2018-0498"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4267-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : mbedtls vulnerabilities (USN-4267-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that mbedtls has a bounds-check bypass through an integer overflow that can be used by an attacked to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-18187) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability where an attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted certificate chain that is mishandled during RSASSA-PSS signature verification within a TLS or DTLS session. (CVE-2018-0487) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability where an attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption) via a crafted application packet within a TLS or DTLS session. (CVE-2018-0488) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability that allows remote attackers to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a timing-based side-channel attack. (CVE-2018-0497) It was discovered that mbedtls has a vulnerability that allows local users to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a cache-based side-channel attack. (CVE-2018-0498). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. 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NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-C6B5117772.NASL description - Update to 2.13.0 - CVE-2018-0497 Release notes: https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.13.0-2.7.6-and-2. 1.15-released Security Advisory: https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security -advisory-2018-02 ---- Make package installable again by fixing Requires. ---- New upstream release. ---- Make package installable again by fixing Requires. ---- New upstream release. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120776 published 2019-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120776 title Fedora 29 : dislocker / dolphin-emu / julia / mbedtls / nekovm / nng (2018-c6b5117772) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2018-c6b5117772. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(120776); script_version("1.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-0497"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-c6b5117772"); script_name(english:"Fedora 29 : dislocker / dolphin-emu / julia / mbedtls / nekovm / nng (2018-c6b5117772)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: " - Update to 2.13.0 - CVE-2018-0497 Release notes: https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.13.0-2.7.6-and-2. 1.15-released Security Advisory: https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security -advisory-2018-02 ---- Make package installable again by fixing Requires. ---- New upstream release. ---- Make package installable again by fixing Requires. ---- New upstream release. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-c6b5117772" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dislocker"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dolphin-emu"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:julia"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mbedtls"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nekovm"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nng"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/01/03"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^29([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 29", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC29", reference:"dislocker-0.7.1-10.fc29")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC29", reference:"dolphin-emu-5.0-25.fc29")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC29", reference:"julia-1.0.1-3.fc29")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC29", reference:"mbedtls-2.13.0-1.fc29")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC29", reference:"nekovm-2.2.0-8.fc29")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"FC29", reference:"nng-1.0.1-2.fc29")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "dislocker / dolphin-emu / julia / mbedtls / nekovm / nng"); }
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1518.NASL description Two vulnerabilities were discovered in polarssl, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library (nowadays continued under the name mbedtls) which could result in plain text recovery via side-channel attacks. Two other minor vulnerabilities were discovered in polarssl which could result in arithmetic overflow errors. CVE-2018-0497 As a protection against the Lucky Thirteen attack, the TLS code for CBC decryption in encrypt-then-MAC mode performs extra MAC calculations to compensate for variations in message size due to padding. The amount of extra MAC calculation to perform was based on the assumption that the bulk of the time is spent in processing 64-byte blocks, which is correct for most supported hashes but not for SHA-384. Correct the amount of extra work for SHA-384 (and SHA-512 which is currently not used in TLS, and MD2 although no one should care about that). This is a regression fix for what CVE-2013-0169 had been fixed this. CVE-2018-0498 The basis for the Lucky 13 family of attacks is for an attacker to be able to distinguish between (long) valid TLS-CBC padding and invalid TLS-CBC padding. Since our code sets padlen = 0 for invalid padding, the length of the input to the HMAC function gives information about that. Information about this length (modulo the MD/SHA block size) can be deduced from how much MD/SHA padding (this is distinct from TLS-CBC padding) is used. If MD/SHA padding is read from a (static) buffer, a local attacker could get information about how much is used via a cache attack targeting that buffer. Let last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117711 published 2018-09-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117711 title Debian DLA-1518-1 : polarssl security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1518-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(117711); script_version("1.1"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/09/27 11:15:32"); script_cve_id("CVE-2013-0169", "CVE-2018-0497", "CVE-2018-0498", "CVE-2018-9988", "CVE-2018-9989"); script_bugtraq_id(57778); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1518-1 : polarssl security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Two vulnerabilities were discovered in polarssl, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library (nowadays continued under the name mbedtls) which could result in plain text recovery via side-channel attacks. Two other minor vulnerabilities were discovered in polarssl which could result in arithmetic overflow errors. CVE-2018-0497 As a protection against the Lucky Thirteen attack, the TLS code for CBC decryption in encrypt-then-MAC mode performs extra MAC calculations to compensate for variations in message size due to padding. The amount of extra MAC calculation to perform was based on the assumption that the bulk of the time is spent in processing 64-byte blocks, which is correct for most supported hashes but not for SHA-384. Correct the amount of extra work for SHA-384 (and SHA-512 which is currently not used in TLS, and MD2 although no one should care about that). This is a regression fix for what CVE-2013-0169 had been fixed this. CVE-2018-0498 The basis for the Lucky 13 family of attacks is for an attacker to be able to distinguish between (long) valid TLS-CBC padding and invalid TLS-CBC padding. Since our code sets padlen = 0 for invalid padding, the length of the input to the HMAC function gives information about that. Information about this length (modulo the MD/SHA block size) can be deduced from how much MD/SHA padding (this is distinct from TLS-CBC padding) is used. If MD/SHA padding is read from a (static) buffer, a local attacker could get information about how much is used via a cache attack targeting that buffer. Let's get rid of this buffer. Now the only buffer used is the internal MD/SHA one, which is always read fully by the process() function. CVE-2018-9988 Prevent arithmetic overflow on bounds check and add bound check before signature length read in ssl_parse_server_key_exchange(). CVE-2018-9989 Prevent arithmetic overflow on bounds check and add bound check before length read in ssl_parse_server_psk_hint() For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.9-2.1+deb8u4. We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00029.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/polarssl" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolarssl-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolarssl-runtime"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpolarssl7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/09/25"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/09/27"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libpolarssl-dev", reference:"1.3.9-2.1+deb8u4")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libpolarssl-runtime", reference:"1.3.9-2.1+deb8u4")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libpolarssl7", reference:"1.3.9-2.1+deb8u4")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_F4876DD49CA811E8AA170011D823EEBD.NASL description Simon Butcher reports : - When using a CBC based ciphersuite, a remote attacker can partially recover the plaintext. - When using a CBC based ciphersuite, an attacker with the ability to execute arbitrary code on the machine under attack can partially recover the plaintext by use of cache based side-channels. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 111659 published 2018-08-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111659 title FreeBSD : mbed TLS -- plaintext recovery vulnerabilities (f4876dd4-9ca8-11e8-aa17-0011d823eebd) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-5D6E80AB82.NASL description - Update to 2.13.0 - CVE-2018-0497 Release notes: https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.13.0-2.7.6-and-2. 1.15-released Security Advisory: https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security -advisory-2018-02 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120456 published 2019-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120456 title Fedora 28 : dislocker / dolphin-emu / mbedtls / nekovm (2018-5d6e80ab82) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4296.NASL description Two vulnerabilities were discovered in mbedtls, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library which could result in plain text recovery via side-channel attacks. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117506 published 2018-09-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117506 title Debian DSA-4296-1 : mbedtls - security update