CVE-2016-2850

Description

Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.29 does not enforce TLS policy for (1) signature algorithms and (2) ECC curves, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.43%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory randombit.net Vendor Advisory marc.info
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2 vendor advisory mailing list
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23 vendor advisory
http://botan.randombit.net/security.html vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-2850?
CVE-2016-2850 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2016-2850?
To fix CVE-2016-2850, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2016-2850 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2016-2850 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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