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openssl: NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG ciphersuite downgrade attack

Published Dec 6, 2010

Description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8q, and 1.0.x before 1.0.0c, when SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG is enabled, does not properly prevent modification of the ciphersuite in the session cache, which allows remote attackers to force the downgrade to an unintended cipher via vectors involving sniffing network traffic to discover a session identifier.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (53)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Dec 6, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 4, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Dec 2, 2010