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CVE-2014-6593

Public on 2015-01-21
Modified on 2015-02-11
Description

It was discovered that the SSL/TLS implementation in the JSSE component in OpenJDK failed to properly check whether the ChangeCipherSpec was received during the SSL/TLS connection handshake. An MITM attacker could possibly use this flaw to force a connection to be established without encryption being enabled.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2015-02-11 19:38 ALAS-2015-480
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2015-01-22 14:18 ALAS-2015-471
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2015-01-22 14:20 ALAS-2015-472

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N