OpenSSL < 0.9.8m Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5358

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of OpenSSL older than 0.9.8m. Such versions potentially have the following vulnerabilities :

- Session renegotiations are not handled properly, which could be exploited to insert arbitrary plaintext by a man-in-the-middle. (CVE-2009-3555)

- The library does not check for a NULL return value from calls to the bn_wexpand() function, which has unspecified impact. (CVE-2009-3245)

Solution

Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8m or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5358

Family: Web Servers

Published: 3/9/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 42880, 45039

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:openssl:openssl

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3245, CVE-2009-3555

BID: 36935, 38562

Detections

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