Information Exposure Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.1, <1.0.200>=1.0.204.1, <1.0.206


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
27.48% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471326
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed28 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-0701  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.200, 1.0.206 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 uses unsafe number generation. The library generates unsafe prime numbers, allowing a malicious user that can force a peer to perform multiple handshakes to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1