CVE-2018-16870
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.19%
Description
It was found that wolfssl before 3.15.7 is vulnerable to a new variant of the Bleichenbacher attack to perform downgrade attacks against TLS. This may lead to leakage of sensible data.
How to fix CVE-2018-16870
To remediate CVE-2018-16870, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/wolfssl—upgrade to 4.1.0+dfsg-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-16870 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.1.0+dfsg-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |