Cryptographic issues in OpenSSL - CVE-2015-0204

 

Cryptographic issues in OpenSSL - CVE-2015-0204

Published: June 10, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU91588
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0204
CWE-ID: CWE-310
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to modify data on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to remote SSL servers allowed to conduct RSA-to-EXPORT_RSA downgrade attacks and facilitate brute-force decryption by offering a weak ephemeral RSA key in a noncompliant role, related to the FREAK issue. A remote attacker can modify data on the system.


Affected software

OpenSSL
Gentoo Linux
dev-libs/openssl
XIV Storage System Gen2
XIV Storage System Gen 3.0

How to mitigate CVE-2015-0204

Install updates from vendor's website.

OpenSSL - addressed in versions 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0p, 1.0.1k
dev-libs/openssl - update to 1.0.1l-r1
XIV Storage System Gen2 - update to 10.2.4.e-6
XIV Storage System Gen 3.0 - update to 11.3.1

External References

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