CVE-2018-15800: Timing attack allows extraction of signing key in Bits Service
Severity
High
Vendor
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
- Bits Service release versions prior to 2.18.0
Description
Cloud Foundry Bits Service, versions prior to 2.18.0, includes an information disclosure vulnerability. A remote malicious user may execute a timing attack to brute-force the signing key, allowing them complete read and write access to the the Bits Service storage.
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigations or upgrades:
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- Bits Service release version 2.18.0
Credit
This issue was responsibly reported by Christopher Brown of VMware.
History
2018-12-06: Initial vulnerability report published.
