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GCVE-110-CERTCC-2016-257823

GCVE-110-CERTCC-2016-257823
Advisory PublishedCVSS 8.8/10
Vulnetix · Advisory published January 28, 2016
OpenSSL may generate unsafe primes for use in the Diffie-Hellman protocol, which may lead to disclosure of enough information for an attacker to recover the private encryption key.
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Risk Scores

CVSS 2.0
8.8/10
High · AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N
certcc-cam
certcc-cam
impact0population0exploitation0widely_known0score_current0ease_of_exploitation0
certcc-vrda
certcc-vrda
d1_impact4d1_population4d1_direct_report0
certcc-cvss-temporal-env
certcc-cvss-temporal-env
temporal_score6.9remediation_levelOFreport_confidenceCenvironmental_score6.8687510697792target_distributionHenvironmental_vectorCDP:ND/TD:H/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

Aliases

CVE-2016-0701

References

OpenSSL re-uses unsafe prime numbers in Diffie-Hellman protocol
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OpenSSL re-uses unsafe prime numbers in Diffie-Hellman protocol
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OpenSSL re-uses unsafe prime numbers in Diffie-Hellman protocol
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OpenSSL re-uses unsafe prime numbers in Diffie-Hellman protocol
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OpenSSL re-uses unsafe prime numbers in Diffie-Hellman protocol
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OpenSSL re-uses unsafe prime numbers in Diffie-Hellman protocol
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