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CVE-2016-8610

Exploitation likely. EPSS gives it a 40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed versions are out.

CVSS 3.17.5HighEPSS percentile99th40% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFix5 products2 fixed builds listed below
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OpenVAS · 55 checks

e.g. OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106849

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Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD

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What to do

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  • OpenSSLAffected: All 0.9.8Upgrade to: not statedAffected: All 1.0.1Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 1.0.2 through 1.0.2hUpgrade to: not statedAffected: 1.1.0Upgrade to: not statedStated by: CVE record
  • Netapp E-series Santricity Os ControllerAffected: ≥ 11.0, ≤ 11.40Upgrade to: after 11.40Stated by: NVD
  • Paloaltonetworks Pan-osAffected: ≤ 6.1.17Upgrade to: after 6.1.17Stated by: NVD
  • Oracle Timesten In-memory DatabaseAffected: < 18.1.4.1.0Upgrade to: 18.1.4.1.0Stated by: NVD
  • Fujitsu M10-1 FirmwareAffected: < xcp2361Upgrade to: xcp2361Stated by: NVD

Versions as the sources state them. 5 more products have version data. Full version matrix after sign-in

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What it is

From the CVE record

A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS99th
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

40% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 99th percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

7 events over 3146 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. OpenVAS check added
  2. EPSS band changehigh → moderate
  3. Patch availablerecord updated
  4. Publishedweakness classified, att&ck mapped

Affected products

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Technical detail

CVSS 3.1 vector

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Scored 7.5 by NVD.

How it is reached

  • Attack Vector NetworkExploitable remotely over the network without any special conditions
  • Attack Complexity LowNo special conditions — the attack can be reliably reproduced
  • Privileges Required NoneNo authentication required — anyone can exploit this
  • User Interaction NoneNo user interaction needed — fully automated exploitation

Scope

  • Scope UnchangedImpact is limited to the vulnerable component itself

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality NoneNo confidentiality impact
  • Integrity NoneNo integrity impact
  • Availability HighTotal denial of service — the component is completely unavailable

Weaknesses

ATT&CK techniques

Mapped from the weaknesses above (CWE to ATT&CK), not observed in attacks.

Sources

References in the record

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