CVE-2016-0887

medium

Published 2016-04-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.9

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.9

Description

EMC RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite (MES) 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.5, RSA BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition (CCME) 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.3, RSA BSAFE Crypto-J before 6.2.1, RSA BSAFE SSL-J before 6.2.1, and RSA BSAFE SSL-C before 2.8.9 allow remote attackers to discover a private-key prime by conducting a Lenstra side-channel attack that leverages an application's failure to detect an RSA signature failure during a TLS session.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

69%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
dell	bsafe_crypto-c-micro-edition	`{"startIncluding":"4.0","endIncluding":"4.0.5.3"}`
dell	bsafe_crypto-j	`{"endExcluding":"6.2.1"}`	`6.2.1`
dell	bsafe_micro-edition-suite	`{"startIncluding":"4.0.0","endIncluding":"4.0.11"}`
dell	bsafe_ssl-c	`{"endExcluding":"2.8.9"}`	`2.8.9`
dell	bsafe_ssl-j	`{"endExcluding":"6.2.1"}`	`6.2.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.