CVE-2016-8610CWE-400

CVE-2016-8610

15Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 40%

exploitation probability

40%top 2% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.

Affected products

OpenSSL · OpenSSL

References