CVE-2022-4304

MEDIUMNVD 5.95.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.9 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2%, top 56% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, nvd
Elevated
5.9
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 16%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE.

For example, in a TLS connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection.

CVSS v3
5.9
EG Score
5.9(medium)
EPSS
96.6%
KEV
Not listed

Published

February 8, 2023

Last Modified

November 4, 2025

References (5)

Patch Availability(13)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibssl3 (3.0.5-2ubuntu2.1) @ kinetic2026-05-25ubuntu
ubuntuqemu-efi-riscv64 (2025.02-3ubuntu2.2) @ plucky2026-05-25ubuntu
ubuntunodejs-doc (12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.3) @ jammy2026-05-25ubuntu
redhatedk2-0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-2.el8_6.12023-07-18redhat
redhatopenssl2023-06-05redhat
redhatjbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1k-14.el7jbcs2023-06-05redhat
redhatjws5-tomcat-native-0:1.2.31-14.redhat_14.el9jws2023-06-05redhat
redhatopenssl-1:1.1.1k-9.el8_62023-05-31redhat
redhatedk2-0:20220126gitbb1bba3d77-4.el82023-05-16redhat
redhatedk2-0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_22023-05-09redhat
redhatopenssl-1:1.1.1k-9.el8_72023-03-22redhat
redhatopenssl-1:3.0.1-46.el9_02023-03-14redhat
redhatopenssl-1:3.0.1-47.el9_12023-02-28redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
crates.io(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
openssl-src300.0.12

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 6× in last 7d / 40× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-11 08:25 UTCEPSS rescore
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  52. 2026-05-25 07:12 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-4304?
CVE-2022-4304 is a medium vulnerability published on February 8, 2023. A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for…
When was CVE-2022-4304 disclosed?
CVE-2022-4304 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on February 8, 2023, with the most recent update on November 4, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2022-4304 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-4304 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 96.6% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-4304?
CVE-2022-4304 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-4304?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2022-4304, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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