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CVE-2015-2318

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Description

The TLS stack in Mono before 3.12.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct message skipping attacks and consequently impersonate clients by leveraging missing handshake state validation, aka a "SMACK SKIP-TLS" issue.

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https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3202

https://mitls.org/pages/attacks/SMACK#skip

https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/1509226c41d74194c146deb173e752b8d3cdeec4

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202869

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2547-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73253

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/17/9

http://www.mono-project.com/news/2015/03/07/mono-tls-vulnerability/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-01-08

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01414

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