Information disclosure in Cavium products - CVE-2017-17428

 

Information disclosure in Cavium products - CVE-2017-17428

Published: March 13, 2018 / Updated: September 14, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11068
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17428
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information o the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper security restrictions. A remote attacker can use the Bleichenbacher attack to monitor Transport Layer Security (TLS) ciphertext data from the targeted client to the affected server and gain access to potentially sensitive information.


Affected software

Nitrox V SSL SDK
Cavium SDK
TurboSSL SDK
Nitrox SSL

How to mitigate CVE-2017-17428

Cybersecurity is currently unaware of any solutions addressing the vulnerability.


Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

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