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CVE-2000-0535

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2000-06-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSH for FreeBSD do not properly check for the existence of the /dev/random or /dev/urandom devices, which are absent on FreeBSD Alpha systems, which causes them to produce weak keys which may be more easily broken.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 4.0-alpha, 5.0-alpha
• OpenSSL: 0.9.4

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-06/0083.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1340
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-06/0083.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1340

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