CVE-2015-7827
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct...
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
7.5
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding.
- Record
CVE-2015-7827- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding.
- Record
CVE-2015-7827- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-7725 No score
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding.
- Record
EUVD-2015-7725- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-hqg9-gjhg-w3qg
7.5
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct...
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding.
- Record
GHSA-hqg9-gjhg-w3qg- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2015-7827
7.5
Botan before 1.10.13 and 1.11.x before 1.11.22 make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7827- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0208 No score
Updated botan packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated botan packages fix security vulnerabilities:
During RSA decryption, how long decoding of PKCS #1 v1.5 padding took was input dependent. If these differences could be measured by an attacker, it could be used to mount a Bleichenbacher million-message attack (CVE-2015-7827).
ECDSA (and DSA) signature algorithms perform a modular inverse on the signature nonce k. The modular inverse algorithm used had input dependent loops, and it is possible a side channel attack could recover sufficient information about the nonce to eventually recover the ECDSA secret key (CVE-2016-2849).
- Record
MGASA-2016-0208- Updated
- 2026-11-02
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OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10477-1 No score
libbotan-1_10-1-1.10.13-1.1 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the libbotan-1_10-1-1.10.13-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10477-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1222-1 No score
Security update for Botan
This update for Botan to version 1.10.9 fixes the following issues:
These security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2015-5726: The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data (bsc#968025).
- CVE-2015-5727: The BER decoder in Botan 1.10.x allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, related to a length field (bsc#968026).
- CVE-2015-7827: Botan make it easier for remote attackers to conduct million-message attacks by measuring time differences, related to decoding of PKCS#1 padding (bsc#968030).
- CVE-2016-2849: Botan do not use a constant-time algorithm to perform a modular inverse on the signature nonce k, which might allowed remote attackers to obtain ECDSA secret keys via a timing side-channel attack (bsc#977420).
- CVE-2016-9132: In Botan 1.8.0 when decoding BER data an integer overflow could occur, which would cause an incorrect length field to be computed. Some API callers may use the returned (incorrect and attacker controlled) length field in a way which later caused memory corruption or other failure (bsc#1013209).
- CVE-2016-2194: The ressol function in Botan allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unspecified input to the OS2ECP function, related to a composite modulus (bsc#965621).
- CVE-2016-2195: Integer overflow in the PointGFp constructor in Botan allowed remote attackers to overwrite memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ECC point, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow (bsc#965620).
- CVE-2017-2801: Incorrect comparison in X.509 DN strings (bsc#1033605).
- CVE-2014-9742: The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan improperly used a single random base, which made it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group (bsc#974521).
These non-security issues were fixed:
- Fixed EAX tag verification to run in constant time
- The default TLS policy now disables SSLv3.
- A crash could have occured when reading from a blocking random device if the device initially indicated that entropy was available but a concurrent process drained the entropy pool before the read was initiated.
- Fixed decoding indefinite length BER constructs that contain a context sensitive tag of zero.
- The key length limit on HMAC has been raised to 512 bytes, allowing the use of very long passphrases with PBKDF2.
- OAEP had two bugs, one of which allowed it to be used even if the key was too small, and the other of which would cause a crash during decryption if the EME data was too large for the associated key.
- Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1222-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1305-1 No score
Security update for Botan
This update for Botan fixes the following issues:
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CVE-2015-7827: PKCS #1 v1.5 decoding was not constant time, it could be used to mount a Bleichenbacher million-message attack (bsc#968030)
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CVE-2016-9132: While decoding BER length fields, an integer overflow could occur leading to a denial-of-service (bsc#1013209)
- Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1305-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1351-1 No score
Security update for Botan
This update for Botan fixes the following issues:
-
CVE-2015-7827: PKCS #1 v1.5 decoding was not constant time, it could be used to mount a Bleichenbacher million-message attack (bsc#968030)
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CVE-2016-9132: While decoding BER length fields, an integer overflow could occur leading to a denial-of-service (bsc#1013209)
- Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1351-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
botan1.10Debian:7 |
before 1.10.5-1+deb7u1, plus listed versions 1.10.5-1 |
1.10.5-1+deb7u1 |
botan1.10Debian:8 |
before 1.10.8-2+deb8u1, plus listed versions 1.10.8-2 |
1.10.8-2+deb8u1 |
botanMageia:5 |
before 1.10.12-1.1.mga5 | 1.10.12-1.1.mga5 |
BotanSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 |
before 1.10.9-3.1 | 1.10.9-3.1 |
BotanSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 |
before 1.10.9-3.1 | 1.10.9-3.1 |
BotanSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 |
before 1.6.5-4.1 | 1.6.5-4.1 |
BotanSUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 |
before 1.6.5-6.1 | 1.6.5-6.1 |
botan1.10Ubuntu:14.04:LTS |
before 1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions 1.10.5-11.10.5-1ubuntu1 |
1.10.5-1+deb7u1ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
botan1.10Ubuntu:16.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 1.10.10-61.10.12-1 |
None known |
BotanopenSUSE:Tumbleweed |
before 1.10.13-1.1 | 1.10.13-1.1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2015-7827 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Botan Project Botan, published April 30, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.44%, the 84th percentile. Fixed in botan1.10 1.10.5-1+deb7u1.
References
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html
debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565
marc.info?l=botan-devel&m=146185420505943&w=2
botan.randombit.net/security.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7827
github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqg9-gjhg-w3qg
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advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0208.html
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18356
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171222-1
bugzilla.suse.com/1013209
bugzilla.suse.com/1033605
bugzilla.suse.com/965620
bugzilla.suse.com/965621
bugzilla.suse.com/968025
bugzilla.suse.com/968026
bugzilla.suse.com/968030
bugzilla.suse.com/974521
bugzilla.suse.com/977420
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9742
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5726
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5727
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7827
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2194
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2195
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2849
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9132
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2801
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171305-1
suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171351-1
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7827
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7827
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2915