CVE-2016-2850

Botan 1.11.x before 1.11.29 does not enforce TLS policy for (1) signature algorithms and (2) ECC curves, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-05-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Botan (Botan Project)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)

References

• http://botan.randombit.net/security.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183669.html
• http://marc.info/?l=botan-devel&m=145852488622892&w=2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-23