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CVE-2016-8610
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…
High7.5EPSS 39.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 39.9% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
References (28)
- 93841 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1659 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1658 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1801 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0286 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1413 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2494 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-16:35 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1414 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161024 CVE-2016-8610: SSL Death Alert: OpenSSL SSL/TLS SSL3_AL_WARNING undefined alert Remote DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0574 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3773 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1415 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1037084 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1802 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2493 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03897en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-8610 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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