Encryption Protection Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl Open this link in a new tab
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.38% (73rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-OPENSSL-455612
- published 30 Jul 2019
- disclosed 20 Sep 2016
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 20 Sep 2016
CVE-2016-7798 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
openssl is a package that wraps the OpenSSL library.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Encryption Protection Bypass. It uses the same initialization vector in GCM Mode
when the IV
is set before the key, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the encryption protection mechanism.