CVE-2026-16459 (GCVE-0-2026-16459)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-13 08:29
Modified
2026-08-13 14:24
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Summary
Padding oracle attack vulnerability in Oberon microsystem AG’s Oberon PSA Crypto library in all versions since 1.0.0 and prior to 2.1.1 allows an attacker to recover plaintexts via timing measurements of RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 decrypt operations.
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Vendor Product Version
Oberon microsystems AG Oberon PSA Crypto Version: 1.0.0   < 2.1.1
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