CVE-2014-6593

CVE Details

Release Date:

2015-01-20

Description

It was discovered that the SSL/TLS implementation in the JSSE component in OpenJDK failed to properly check whether the ChangeCipherSpec was received during the SSL/TLS connection handshake. An MITM attacker could possibly use this flaw to force a connection to be established without encryption being enabled.

See more information about CVE-2014-6593 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-0085	2015-01-26
Oracle Linux version 5 (java-1.7.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-0068	2015-01-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-0085	2015-01-26
Oracle Linux version 6 (java-1.7.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-0067	2015-01-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (java-1.8.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-0069	2015-01-21
Oracle Linux version 7 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-0085	2015-01-26
Oracle Linux version 7 (java-1.7.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-0067	2015-01-21

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