CVE-2016-3702

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2016-04-25
CWE:
CWE-327
Bugzilla:
1330179: CVE-2016-3702 CFME vulnerable to padding oracle attack against AES-256-CBC
A padding oracle flaw was found in the encryption of sensitive information stored within the backend database used by CloudForms. An attacker able to submit forged cipher texts could observe the results of encryption and determine information that could, in turn, lead to the disclosure of encrypted data within the database.

Find out more about CVE-2016-3702 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 4.9
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None

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Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Travis Scheponik (Red Hat).

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