vulnerability

IBM WebSphere Application Server: CVE-2016-2183: IBM Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affects WebSphere Application Server January 2017 CPU

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 31, 2016
Added
Apr 27, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.

Solutions

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