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CVE-2016-2183

Public on 2016-09-01
Modified on 2017-01-26
Description

A flaw was found in the way the DES/3DES cipher was used as part of the TLS/SSL protocol. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to recover some plaintext data by capturing large amounts of encrypted traffic between TLS/SSL server and client if the communication used a DES/3DES based ciphersuite.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2017-01-26 18:00 ALAS-2017-791
Amazon Linux 1 openssl 2016-10-12 17:00 ALAS-2016-755

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N