VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8871

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Published 2016-10-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.2

Description

In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
botan_projectbotan1.11.29
botan_projectbotan1.11.30
botan_projectbotan1.11.31
botan_projectbotan1.11.32

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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