CVE-2016-8610

HIGH

OpenSSL <1.1.0 - DoS

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (2)

nomisec WORKING POC 33 stars
by cujanovic · poc
https://github.com/cujanovic/CVE-2016-8610-PoC
gitlab WORKING POC
by drent · poc
https://gitlab.com/drent/CVE-2016-8610-PoC

References (28)

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Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.7113
EPSS Percentile 98.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (50)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
fujitsu/m10-1_firmware < xcp2361
fujitsu/m10-4_firmware < xcp2361
fujitsu/m10-4s_firmware < xcp2361
fujitsu/m12-1_firmware < xcp2361
fujitsu/m12-2_firmware < xcp2361
fujitsu/m12-2s_firmware < xcp2361
netapp/clustered_data_ontap
netapp/clustered_data_ontap_antivirus_connector
netapp/cn1610_firmware
... and 40 more
Published Nov 13, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026