Protection Mechanism Failure in OpenSSL - CVE-2019-1549
Published: September 11, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21044
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1549
CWE-ID: CWE-693
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenSSL Software Foundation
Affected software:
OpenSSL
OpenSSL
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to OpenSSL does not use by default a rewritten random number generator (RNG) in the event of a fork() system call, resulting in the child and parent processes share the same RNG state.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-1549
Install updates from vendor's website.