CVE Database›CVE-2018-10845

CVE-2018-10845

gnutls: HMAC-SHA-384 vulnerable to Lucky thirteen attack due to use of wrong constant

Loading…

Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · August 21, 2018

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

It was found that GnuTLS's implementation of HMAC-SHA-384 was vulnerable to a Lucky Thirteen-style attack. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct distinguishing attacks and plain text recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data using crafted packets.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-327 · Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm