4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-3616

Published: 08/12/2014 Updated: 10/11/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

nginx 0.5.6 up to and including 1.7.4, when using the same shared ssl_session_cache or ssl_session_ticket_key for multiple servers, can reuse a cached SSL session for an unrelated context, which allows remote attackers with certain privileges to conduct "virtual host confusion" attacks.

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nginx could be made to expose sensitive information over the network ...
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that it was possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts, allowing virtual host confusion attacks in some configurations by an attacker in a privileged network position For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 121-22+wheezy3 For the ...
Debian Bug report logs - #812806 nginx: resolver CVEs: CVE-2016-0742 CVE-2016-0746 CVE-2016-0747 Package: src:nginx; Maintainer for src:nginx is Debian Nginx Maintainers <pkg-nginx-maintainers@alioth-listsdebiannet>; Reported by: Christos Trochalakis <yatiohi@ideopolisgr> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:03:01 UTC Severi ...
Debian Bug report logs - #761940 nginx:CVE-2014-3616: possible to reuse cached SSL sessions in unrelated contexts Package: src:nginx; Maintainer for src:nginx is Debian Nginx Maintainers <pkg-nginx-maintainers@alioth-listsdebiannet>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 05:09: ...
A virtual host confusion issue was found in nginx, allowing HTTPS connections for one origin to be redirected to the virtual host of a different origin This leads to a variety of issues, such as cookie theft and session hijacking It could be triggered from a cross-site scripting flaw, tricking a user into visiting a malicious URL, and so on ...