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CVE-2010-4180

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3
4.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)9%

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=20131 ↗