CVE-2015-0293

openssl: assertion failure in SSLv2 servers

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 19, 2015

Updated · May 15, 2026

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled SSLv2 handshake messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a TLS/SSL server using OpenSSL to exit on a failed assertion if it had both the SSLv2 protocol and EXPORT-grade cipher suites enabled.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion