CVE-2020-1968

Raccoon attack

Low · published September 9, 2020

CVSS v3.1
3.7
EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Raccoon attack exploits a flaw in the TLS specification which can lead to an attacker being able to compute the pre-master secret in connections which have used a Diffie-Hellman (DH) based ciphersuite. In such a case this would result in the attacker being able to eavesdrop on all encrypted communications sent over that TLS connection. The attack can only be exploited if an implementation re-uses a DH secret across multiple TLS connections. Note that this issue only impacts DH ciphersuites and not ECDH ciphersuites. This issue affects OpenSSL 1.0.2 which is out of support and no longer receiving public updates. OpenSSL 1.1.1 is not vulnerable to this issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2w (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2v).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.7 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04903 · 92.1th percentile
Published
2020-09-09T13:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 SEP 13:50Z
    Raccoon attack
    cvelistv5