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title: "CVE-2024-3296\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2024-3296

Publication date 4 April 2024

Last updated 11 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

## Cvss 3 Severity Score

**5.9 · Medium**

[Score breakdown](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-3296?format=md#impact-score)

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## Description

A timing-based side-channel flaw exists in the rust-openssl package, which
could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a
Bleichenbacher-style attack. To achieve successful decryption, an attacker
would have to be able to send a large number of trial messages for
decryption. The vulnerability affects the legacy PKCS#1v1.5 RSA encryption
padding mode.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| rust-openssl | 26.04 LTS resolute | Needs evaluation |
| 25.10 questing | Ignored end of life, was needs-triage |
| 25.04 plucky | Ignored end of life, was needs-triage |
| 24.10 oracular | Ignored end of life, was needs-triage |
| 24.04 LTS noble | Needs evaluation |
| 23.10 mantic | Ignored end of life, was needs-triage |
| 22.04 LTS jammy | Needs evaluation |
| 20.04 LTS focal | Needs evaluation |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:
CVSS v3.0

**Base score**

5.9 · Medium

* Base metrics

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Attack vector | Network |
  | Attack complexity | High |
  | Privileges required | None |
  | User interaction | None |
  | Scope | Unchanged |
  | Confidentiality impact | High |
  | Integrity impact | None |
  | Availability impact | None |
* Scores

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Base score | 5.9 · Medium |
  | Exploitability score | - |
  | Impact score | - |

**Vector:** CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-3296)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3296)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-3296)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-3296)

### Other references

* <https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/issues/2171>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3296>