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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2003-0545

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL client certificate with a certain invalid ASN.1 encoding.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 87.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 87.5%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL client certificate with a certain invalid ASN.1 encoding.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
87.50% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-415
Affected
openssl/openssl
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.