CVE-2016-0704

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An oracle protection mechanism in the get_client_master_key function in s2_srvr.c in the SSLv2 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a overwrites incorrect MASTER-KEY bytes during use of export cipher suites, which makes it easier for remote attackers to decrypt TLS ciphertext data by leveraging a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle, a related issue to CVE-2016-0800.

Affected products

OpenSSL: through 0.9.8ze; 1.0.0, 1.0.0-beta1, 1.0.0-beta2, 1.0.0-beta3, 1.0.0-beta4, 1.0.0-beta5 (+37)

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00025.html

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