Openssl · Openssl · CVE-2022-4304
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
OpenSSL (affected versions not specified)
**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.
**Recommendations**
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.