Information Exposure Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.1, <1.0.200 >=1.0.204.1, <1.0.206
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
11.88% (96th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471326
- published 2 Oct 2019
- disclosed 28 Jan 2016
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 28 Jan 2016
CVE-2016-0701 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.200, 1.0.206 or higher.
Overview
OpenSSL is a SSL/TLS and Crypto toolkit. Deprecated in Mac OS and gone in iOS, this spec gives your project non-deprecated OpenSSL support.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. OpenSSL uses unsafe number generation. The library generates unsafe prime numbers, allowing a malicious user that can force a peer to perform multiple handshakes to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.
References
- Cert Vulnerability Note
- Fedora Security Announcement
- Gentoo Security Advisory
- HPE Support Center Security Bulletin
- HPE Support Center Security Bulletin
- http://intothesymmetry.blogspot.com/2016/01/openssl-key-recovery-attack-on-dh-small.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
- https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=878e2c5b13010329c203f309ed0c8f2113f85648
- https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=c5b831f21d0d29d1e517d139d9d101763f60c9a2
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03724en_us
- OpenSSL Security Advisory
- OpenSuse Security Announcement
- Oracle Security Advisory
- Oracle Security Advisory
- Security Focus
- Security Focus
- Security Tracker
- Ubuntu Security Advisory