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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-1968

The Raccoon attack exploits a flaw in the TLS specification which can lead to an attacker being able to compute the pre-master secret in connections which have used a Diffie-Hellman (DH) based ciphersuite.

LOW 3.7EPSS 4.76%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (4.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Raccoon attack exploits a flaw in the TLS specification which can lead to an attacker being able to compute the pre-master secret in connections which have used a Diffie-Hellman (DH) based ciphersuite. In such a case this would result in the attacker being able to eavesdrop on all encrypted communications sent over that TLS connection. The attack can only be exploited if an implementation re-uses a DH secret across multiple TLS connections. Note that this issue only impacts DH ciphersuites and not ECDH ciphersuites. This issue affects OpenSSL 1.0.2 which is out of support and no longer receiving public updates. OpenSSL 1.1.1 is not vulnerable to this issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2w (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2v).

CVSS 3.1
3.7 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
4.76% probability · 91th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-203
Affected
openssl/openssl · canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux · oracle/jd edwards world security · oracle/peoplesoft enterprise peopletools · oracle/ethernet switch es2-64 firmware · oracle/ethernet switch es2-72 firmware · fujitsu/m10-1 firmware · fujitsu/m10-4 firmware · fujitsu/m10-4s firmware · fujitsu/m12-1 firmware · fujitsu/m12-2 firmware · fujitsu/m12-2s firmware · oracle/ethernet switch es1-24 firmware · oracle/ethernet switch tor-72 firmware
Source
openssl-security@openssl.org

References

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