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The Raccoon attack exploits a flaw in the TLS...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The Raccoon attack exploits a flaw in the TLS specification which can lead to an attacker being able to compute the pre-master secret in connections which have used a Diffie-Hellman (DH) based ciphersuite. In such a case this would result in the attacker being able to eavesdrop on all encrypted communications sent over that TLS connection. The attack can only be exploited if an implementation re-uses a DH secret across multiple TLS connections. Note that this issue only impacts DH ciphersuites and not ECDH ciphersuites. This issue affects OpenSSL 1.0.2 which is out of support and no longer receiving public updates. OpenSSL 1.1.1 is not vulnerable to this issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2w (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2v).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 9, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2020-1968

GHSA ID

GHSA-mh8f-5gw2-5wgh

Source code

No known source code

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