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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-2181

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops)…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 22.6%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 22.6%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
22.63% probability · 98th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-189
Affected
openssl/openssl · oracle/linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

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