CVE-2010-4180 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2010-4180

OpenSSL before 0.9.8q, and 1.0.x before 1.0.0c, when SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG is...

Vulnerability Description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8q, and 1.0.x before 1.0.0c, when SSL_OP_NETSCAPE_REUSE_CIPHER_CHANGE_BUG is enabled, does not properly prevent modification of the ciphersuite in the session cache, which allows remote attackers to force the downgrade to an unintended cipher via vectors involving sniffing network traffic to discover a session identifier.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

openssl, fedora, debian linux, ubuntu linux, opensuse, linux enterprise, linux enterprise desktop, linux enterprise server, nginx
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.0.0, 13, 14, 5.0, 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.0, 10, 11, 9

Timeline

Official Publish: December 6th, 2010
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.