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CVE-2016-8610

A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined…

High7.5EPSS 39.7%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-8610, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
39.7% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • OpenSSL · OpenSSL

    • affected All 0.9.8
    • affected All 1.0.1
    • affected 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h
    • affected 1.1.0

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