Vulnerability in OpenSSL

CVE-2019-1563

In situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success or failure of a decryption attempt an attacker, after sending a very large number of messages to be decrypted, can recover a CMS/PKCS7 transported encryption key or decrypt any RSA encrypted message that was encrypted with the public RSA key, using a Bleichenbacher padding oracle attack. Applications are not affected if they use a certificate together with the private RSA key to the CMS_decrypt or PKCS7_decrypt functions to select the correct recipient info to decrypt. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1d (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1c). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0l (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0k). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2t (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2s).

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.038 (89.7th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2019-1563: held from 0.038 to 0.038.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • OpenSSL — versions Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1d (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1c), Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0l (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0k), Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2t (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2s)

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-1563?
CVE-2019-1563 is a low-severity vulnerability in OpenSSL, classified under Observable Discrepancy. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2019-09-10.
How severe is CVE-2019-1563?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-1563 known to be exploited?
19 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.