Wolfssl
CVE-2015-6925
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.90%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) before 3.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or traffic amplification) via a crafted DTLS cookie in a ClientHello message. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-399. wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) before 3.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or traffic amplification) via a crafted DTLS cookie in a ClientHello message. Affected products include: Wolfssl. Version information: before 3.6.8.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) before 3.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or traffic amplification) via a crafted DTLS cookie in a ClientHello message.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
wolfSSL prior to version 3.12.2 provides a weak Bleichenbacher oracle when any TLS cipher suite using RSA key exchange i
A specially crafted x509 certificate can cause a single out of bounds byte overwrite in wolfSSL through 3.10.2 resulting
Authentication bypass in wolfSSL TLS clients built with Raw Public Key (RPK) support allows a malicious or on-path serve
wolfSSL builds that enable the WOLFSSL_TRUST_PEER_CERT macro can be induced to accept a forged clone of a trusted-peer C
Certificate forgery in the wolfSSL client (versions 5.7.2 through 5.9.2) lets a remote attacker who already holds any ce
In wolfSSL before 5.5.1, malicious clients can cause a buffer overflow during a TLS 1.3 handshake. Rated high severity (
An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 5.5.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploita
wolfSSL 4.3.0 has mulmod code in wc_ecc_mulmod_ex in ecc.c that does not properly resist timing side-channel attacks. Ra
In wolfSSL 4.1.0 through 4.2.0c, there are missing sanity checks of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data wh
An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 4.5.0, when single precision is not employed. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0).
wolfSSL before 4.5.0 mishandles TLS 1.3 server data in the WAIT_CERT_CR state, within SanityCheckTls13MsgReceived() in t
wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) before 3.6.8 does not properly handle faults associated with the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CR
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