CVE-2008-7270

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8j, when SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG is enabled, does not prevent modification of the ciphersuite in the session cache, which allows remote attackers to force the use of a disabled cipher via vectors involving sniffing network traffic to discover a session identifier, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4180.

Affected products

OpenSSL: through 0.9.8i; 0.9.1c, 0.9.2b, 0.9.3, 0.9.3a, 0.9.4, 0.9.5 (+54)

References

http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=17489
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132077688910227&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/42493
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1029-1
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0977.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0978.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0896.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522176
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45254
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659462
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=17489
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132077688910227&w=2

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