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CVE-2001-0856

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) in IBM 4758 allows an attacker with physical access to the system and Combine_Key_Parts permissions, to steal DES and 3DES keys by using a brute force attack to create a 3DES exporter key.

Affected products

• IBM 4758: all versions

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100533053219673&w=2
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/attack.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3524
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100533053219673&w=2
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/attack.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3524

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