ALPINE-CVE-2016-2183 — Vulnetix

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ALPINE-CVE-2016-2183 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.4	openssl	1.0.2g-r1, 0.9.8k-r4, 0.9.8k-r3
Alpine:v3.2	openssl	0.9.8i-r0, 0.9.8j-r0, 0.9.8k-r0
Alpine:v3.6	openssl	0.9.8n-r0, 0, 0.9.8i-r0
Alpine:v3.7	openssl	0, 1.0.2h-r4, 1.0.2h-r3
Alpine:v3.3	openssl	1.0.1j-r0, 0, 1.0.2h-r4
Alpine:v3.8	openssl	1.0.2h-r4, 1.0.2g-r2, 1.0.2g-r1
Alpine:v3.5	openssl	1.0.2a-r1, 1.0.2b-r0, 1.0.2c-r0

Timeline

Sep 1, 2016 CVE Published
Apr 11, 2025 PoC Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-2183 advisory

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