Vulnerability in Openssl

CVE-2014-8275

OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not enforce certain constraints on certificate data, which allows remote attackers to defeat a fingerprint-based certificate-blacklist protection mechanism by including crafted data within a certificate's unsigned portion, related to crypto/asn1/a_verify.c, crypto/dsa/dsa_asn1.c, crypto/ecdsa/ecs_vrf.c, and crypto/x509/x_all.c.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

EPSS: 0.165 (96.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Openssl — versions 1.0.0a, 1.0.0b, 1.0.0c
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-8275?
CVE-2014-8275 is a vulnerability in Openssl, classified under Cryptographic Issues. Published 2015-01-09.
Is CVE-2014-8275 known to be exploited?
10 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.