CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-5095
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
The Diffie-Hellman key-exchange implementation in OpenSSL 0.9.8, when FIPS mode is enabled, does not properly validate a public parameter, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain the shared secret key by modifying network traffic, a related issue to CVE-2011-1923.
Affected configurations
• openssl openssl 0.9.8
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/psandqs.pdf www.cl.cam.ac.uk
- http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=53360 www.nessus.org
- https://discussions.nessus.org/thread/3381 discussions.nessus.org
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/psandqs.pdf www.cl.cam.ac.uk
- http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=53360 www.nessus.org
- https://discussions.nessus.org/thread/3381 discussions.nessus.org