Information Exposure Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.1, <1.0.201


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.44% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471182
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed1 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-0704  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.201 or higher.

Overview

OpenSSL is a SSL/TLS and Crypto toolkit. Deprecated in Mac OS and gone in iOS, this spec gives your project non-deprecated OpenSSL support.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. OpenSSL is vulnerable to padding oracle attacks. A malicious user can use an SSLv2 server as a Bleichenbacher oracle, allowing the malicious user to decrypt TLS ciphertext data.

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