PT-2016-5239 · Botan · Botan

Published 2016-05-13 · Updated 2017-07-01 · CVE-2016-2850

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Botan versions 1.11.x through 1.11.28

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors because it does not enforce TLS policy for signature algorithms and ECC curves.

Recommendations For versions 1.11.x through 1.11.28, update to version 1.11.29 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-2850

Affected Products

Botan

References · 6

• http://botan.randombit.net/security.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-2850 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2850 · Security Note