CVE-2014-3566
Public on 2014-10-14
Modified on 2015-02-11
Description
A flaw was found in the way SSL 3.0 handled padding bytes when decrypting messages encrypted using block ciphers in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode. This flaw allows a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker to decrypt a selected byte of a cipher text in as few as 256 tries if they are able to force a victim application to repeatedly send the same data over newly created SSL 3.0 connections.
Severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | java-1.6.0-openjdk | 2015-02-11 | ALAS-2015-480 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2015-01-22 | ALAS-2015-471 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2015-01-22 | ALAS-2015-472 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | nss | 2014-10-16 | ALAS-2014-429 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | openssl | 2014-10-14 | ALAS-2014-426 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 3.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |