CVE-2015-2774

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Erlang/OTP before 18.0-rc1 does not properly check CBC padding bytes when terminating connections, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a padding-oracle attack, a variant of CVE-2014-3566 (aka POODLE).

Affected products

Erlang OTP: through 18.0
Opensuse: 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00124.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/9
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73398
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3571-1/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150905124006/http://www.erlang.org/news/85
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/12/08/poodleagain.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00124.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/9
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

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