Low severity3.7NVD Advisory· Published Feb 3, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2016-8217
CVE-2016-8217
Description
EMC RSA BSAFE Crypto-J versions prior to 6.2.2 has a PKCS#12 Timing Attack Vulnerability. A possible timing attack could be carried out by modifying a PKCS#12 file that has an integrity MAC for which the password is not known. An attacker could then feed the modified PKCS#12 file to the toolkit and guess the current MAC one byte at a time. This is possible because Crypto-J uses a non-constant-time method to compare the stored MAC with the calculated MAC. This vulnerability is similar to the issue described in CVE-2015-2601.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
3- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540066/30/0/threadednvdMailing ListThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/95831nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1037732nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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