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Palo Alto Networks PAN-SA-2012-0017: OpenSSL Plain Text Recovery Attack Vulnerability

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Palo Alto Networks PAN-SA-2012-0017: OpenSSL Plain Text Recovery Attack Vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/27/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/12/2016
Modified
06/17/2020

Description

The OpenSSL library implementation is vulnerable to a plain text recovery attack by performing timing analysis of the time required to decrypt encrypted data. A detailed report of this issue is available at http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf. (Ref #36017)

Solution(s)

  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-3-1
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-4-0
  • palo-alto-networks-pan-os-upgrade-4-1

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