CVE-2016-2850

7.5 HIGH

Published: May 13, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.29 does not enforce TLS policy for (1) signature algorithms and (2) ECC curves, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

8 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

7.5 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.4%

63th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Affected Vendors

botan_project fedoraproject

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