CVE-2015-8838

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 uses a client SSL option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a cleartext-downgrade attack, a related issue to CVE-2015-3152.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.4.42; 5.5.0, 5.5.0-alpha1, 5.5.0-alpha2, 5.5.0-alpha3, 5.5.0-alpha4, 5.5.0-alpha5 (+52)

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97aa752fee61fccdec361279adbfb17a3c60f3f4
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00052.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00057.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00058.html
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-2
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69669
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97aa752fee61fccdec361279adbfb17a3c60f3f4
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00052.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00056.html

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