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Red Hat JBossEAP: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm (CVE-2016-2183)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm (CVE-2016-2183)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/24/2016
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

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.. A flaw was found in the way the DES/3DES cipher was used as part of the TLS/SSL protocol. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to recover some plaintext data by capturing large amounts of encrypted traffic between TLS/SSL server and client if the communication used a DES/3DES based ciphersuite.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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