CVE-2016-6329 (GCVE-0-2016-6329)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:29
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
OpenVPN, when using a 64-bit block cipher, makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTP-over-OpenVPN session using Blowfish in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://sweet32.info/ | x_refsource_MISC |
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| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036695 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-02 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SWEET32 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92631 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/s… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2016-08-24 00:00
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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