ALPINE-CVE-2022-4304

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CVE-2022-4304
Published: 08 Feb 2023, 20:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
24/100
CVSS Score
5.9 MEDIUM
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

08 Feb 2023, 20:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE. For example, in a TLS connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Systems

  • alpine•openssl

    < 1.1.1t-r0 | < 1.1.1t-r0 | < 1.1.1t-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0

  • alpine•openssl3

    < 3.0.8-r0 | < 3.0.8-r0

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