Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
10.4%
top 6.79%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 16
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The tls_decrypt_ticket function in ssl/t1_lib.c in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 does not consider the HMAC size during validation of the ticket length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a ticket that is too short.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

Debianopenssl< 1.0.2i-1+3
NVDopenssl/openssl30 versions+29
NVDoracle/linux6, 7+1
NVDoracle/solaris10, 11.3+1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-h9vm-qp4h-23fm: The tls_decrypt_ticket function in ssl/t1_lib2022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2016-6302: The tls_decrypt_ticket function in ssl/t1_lib2016-09-16
OSV
CVE-2016-6302: The tls_decrypt_ticket function in ssl/t1_lib2016-09-16

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Cisco
Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL Affecting Cisco Products: September 20162016-09-27
BSD
FreeBSD-SA-16:26.openssl: Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities2016-09-23
Ubuntu
OpenSSL vulnerabilities2016-09-22
Red Hat
openssl: Insufficient TLS session ticket HMAC length checks2016-08-23
Debian
CVE-2016-6302: openssl - The tls_decrypt_ticket function in ssl/t1_lib.c in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 does not...2016

💬Community

5
HackerOne
Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302)2017-05-25
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6302 openssl101e: openssl: Insufficient ticket sanity checks [epel-5]2016-08-24
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6302 mingw-openssl: openssl: Insufficient ticket sanity checks [fedora-all]2016-08-24
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6302 openssl: Insufficient TLS session ticket HMAC length checks2016-08-24
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6302 openssl: Insufficient ticket sanity checks [fedora-all]2016-08-24
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