CVE-2017-17427

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-203

Description

Radware Alteon devices with a firmware version between 31.0.0.0-31.0.3.0 are vulnerable to an adaptive-chosen ciphertext attack ("Bleichenbacher attack"). This allows an attacker to decrypt observed traffic that has been encrypted with the RSA cipher and to perform other private key operations.

Affected products

Radware Alteon Firmware: from 31.0.0.0 through 31.0.3.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102199
https://robotattack.org/
https://support.radware.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1010361/~/cve-2017-17427-adaptive-chosen-ciphertext-attack-vulnerability
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/144389
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102199
https://robotattack.org/
https://support.radware.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1010361/~/cve-2017-17427-adaptive-chosen-ciphertext-attack-vulnerability
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/144389

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