CVE-2016-2183 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2016-2183

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the...

Vulnerability Description

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

jboss enterprise application platform, jboss enterprise web server, jboss web server, enterprise linux, python, content security management appliance, openssl, database, node.js
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0.0, 1.0.0, 2.0.0, 3.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 2.7.0, 3.4.0, 3.5.0, 9.6.6-068, 9.7.0-006, 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b, 1.0.1c, 1.0.1d, 1.0.1e, 1.0.1f, 1.0.1g, 1.0.1h, 1.0.1i, 1.0.1j, 1.0.1k, 1.0.1l, 1.0.1m, 1.0.1n, 1.0.1o, 1.0.1p, 1.0.1q, 1.0.1r, 1.0.1t, 1.0.2a, 1.0.2b, 1.0.2c, 1.0.2d, 1.0.2e, 1.0.2f, 1.0.2h, 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2, 0.10.0, 0.12.0, 4.0.0, 4.2.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 1st, 2016
Last Modified: May 29th, 2026
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.