CVE-2016-8610

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
OpenSSLOpenSSLAll 0.9.8; All 1.0.1; 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h; 1.1.0

References

Timeline

Published
Nov 13, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-8610: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix