Information disclosure in Cisco Content Security Management Appliance
CVE-2016-2183
The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.947 (99.9th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.957 · newest: 0.947 · change: -0.010
Affected products
- Cisco Content Security Management Appliance — versions 9.6.6-068, 9.7.0-006
- Node.js
- OpenSSL — versions 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b, 1.0.1c
- Oracle Database — versions 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2
- Python
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
- Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform — versions 6.0.0
- Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Web Server — versions 1.0.0, 2.0.0
- Red Hat Jboss Web Server — versions 3.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3113 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0338.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20 (Third Party Advisory)
- h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display (Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-16 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay (Third Party Advisory)
- h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay (Third Party Advisory)
- kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40312 (Third Party Advisory)
- h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay (Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3240 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-2183?
- CVE-2016-2183 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Content Security Management Appliance, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-09-01.
- How severe is CVE-2016-2183?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-2183 known to be exploited?
- 62 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.