CVE-2016-8610
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 71.4%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-8610
To remediate CVE-2016-8610, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/openssl—upgrade to 1.0.2j-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-8610 being exploited?
Likely — EPSS is 71.4%, placing CVE-2016-8610 in the top tier of vulnerabilities by exploitation probability. Prioritise patching.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.0.2j-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |