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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-10846

medium Nessus Plugin ID 221527

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of Just in Time Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets. (CVE-2018-10846)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10846

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10846

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 221527

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2018_10846.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 7/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnutls26, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-guile, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-guile, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnutls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-gnutls, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-gnutls

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10846