Vulnerabilities

CVSS

7.5 High

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Risk score

60.0

Published

2016-09-01

Status

Modified

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Coverage 1

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Advisories and references

• kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00022.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00023.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00024.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00031.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00005.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00011.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00012.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00021.html