CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2850
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.29 does not enforce TLS policy for (1) signature algorithms and (2) ECC curves, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• botan project botan 1.11.0
• botan project botan 1.11.1
• botan project botan 1.11.2
• botan project botan 1.11.3
• botan project botan 1.11.4
• botan project botan 1.11.5
• botan project botan 1.11.6
• botan project botan 1.11.7
• botan project botan 1.11.8
• botan project botan 1.11.9
• botan project botan 1.11.10
• botan project botan 1.11.11
• botan project botan 1.11.12
• botan project botan 1.11.13
• botan project botan 1.11.14
• botan project botan 1.11.15
• botan project botan 1.11.16
• botan project botan 1.11.17
• botan project botan 1.11.18
• botan project botan 1.11.19
• botan project botan 1.11.20
• botan project botan 1.11.21
• botan project botan 1.11.22
• botan project botan 1.11.23
• botan project botan 1.11.24
• botan project botan 1.11.25
• botan project botan 1.11.26
• botan project botan 1.11.27
• botan project botan 1.11.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://botan.randombit.net/security.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23 security.gentoo.org
- http://botan.randombit.net/security.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23 security.gentoo.org