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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-6883

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

MatrixSSL before 3.8.3 configured with RSA Cipher Suites allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a Bleichenbacher variant attack.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published