Resource exhaustion in Fujitsu M10-1
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 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.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
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:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.397 (98.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.397 · newest: 0.397 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1658 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2494 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:35.openssl.asc (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-8610?
- CVE-2016-8610 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fujitsu M10-1, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-11-13.
- How severe is CVE-2016-8610?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-8610 known to be exploited?
- 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.