CVE-2018-0737

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could recover the private key. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0i-dev (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0h). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2p-dev (Affected 1.0.2b-1.0.2o).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0737

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0737.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:1.1.0.i-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.0h-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.0h-3
debian debianforkyfixed1.1.0h-3
debian debiansidfixed1.1.0h-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.0h-3

References

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