Information disclosure in OpenSSL - CVE-2014-3566
Published: January 20, 2017 / Updated: November 8, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU5214
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3566
CWE-ID: CWE-327
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: OpenSSL Software Foundation
Affected software:
OpenSSL
OpenSSL
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of insecure SSLv3 protocol in OpenSSL. A remote attacker can force the current connection between user and server to be downgraded to SSLv3 protocol and then use padding-oracle attack on Cypher-block chaining (CBC) mode to decrypt encrypted communication.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to read encrypted communications in clear text.
Note: The vulnerability is known as POODLE.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of insecure SSLv3 protocol in OpenSSL. A remote attacker can force the current connection between user and server to be downgraded to SSLv3 protocol and then use padding-oracle attack on Cypher-block chaining (CBC) mode to decrypt encrypted communication.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to read encrypted communications in clear text.
Note: The vulnerability is known as POODLE.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3566
Update OpenSSL to version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o or 1.0.1j.