CVE-2011-3389
MEDIUMEPSS 99th pctlDescription
The SSL protocol, as used in certain configurations in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and other products, encrypts data by using CBC mode with chained initialization vectors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers via a blockwise chosen-boundary attack (BCBA) on an HTTPS session, in conjunction with JavaScript code that uses (1) the HTML5 WebSocket API, (2) the Java URLConnection API, or (3) the Silverlight WebClient API, aka a "BEAST" attack.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/09/27/attack-against-tls-protected-communications/
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/09/26/microsoft-releases-security-advisory-2588513.aspx
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/09/26/is-ssl-broken-more-about-security-advisory-2588513.aspx
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124B.html
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-001.html
- http://ekoparty.org/2011/juliano-rizzo.php
- http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/111
- http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/136
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/10/chrome-stable-release.html
- http://isc.sans.edu/diary/SSL+TLS+part+3+/11635
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00002.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Jul/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00049.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00051.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132750579901589&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132872385320240&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133365109612558&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133728004526190&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254866602253&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254957702612&w=2
- http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2011/09/28/the-beast-ssl-tls-issue
- http://osvdb.org/74829
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0508.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1455.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45791
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47998
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48256
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48692
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48915
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48948
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49198
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55322
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55350
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55351
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-02.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4999
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5001
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6150
- http://technet.microsoft.com/security/advisory/2588513
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