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CVE-2016-6879
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-320
Description
The X509_Certificate::allowed_usage function in botan 1.11.x before 1.11.31 might allow attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging a call with more than one Key_Usage set in the enum value.
Affected products
- randombit botan: 1.11.0, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.11.3, 1.11.4, 1.11.5 (+25)
References
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