What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2217

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-320

Description

The OpenSSL address implementation in Socat 1.7.3.0 and 2.0.0-b8 does not use a prime number for the DH, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain the shared secret.

Affected products

• socat: 1.7.3.0, 2.0.0-b8

References

• http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv7.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/01/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/04/1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-23
• http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv7.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/01/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/04/1
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-23

Get alerted when CVE-2016-2217 or the next vulnerability affects your stack