CVE-2010-4252

high
Published 2010-12-06 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

OpenSSL before 1.0.0c, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not properly validate the public parameters in the J-PAKE protocol, which allows remote attackers to bypass the need for knowledge of the shared secret, and successfully authenticate, by sending crafted values in each round of the protocol.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl{"endIncluding":"1.0.0b"}
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.1c
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.2b
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.3
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.3a
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.4
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.5
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.5a
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6a
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6b
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6c
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6d
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6e
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6f
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6g
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6h
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6i
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6j
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6k
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6l
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.6m
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7a
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7b
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7c
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7d
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7e
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7f
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7g
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7h
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7i
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7j
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7k
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7l
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7m
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8a
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8b
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8c
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8d
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8e
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8f
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8g
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8h
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8i
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8j
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8k
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8l
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8m
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8n
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8o
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8p
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0a

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.