CVE-2016-2166

Aliases:GHSA-f5cf-f7px-xpmh
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 2
Modified
Published: 12 Apr 2016, 14:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 23:17

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.27% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Apr 2016, 14:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 23:17
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The (1) proton.reactor.Connector, (2) proton.reactor.Container, and (3) proton.utils.BlockingConnection classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information or modify data via unspecified vectors.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.27%• Percentile: 51%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-200•Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

    The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Systems

  • apache•qpid_proton

    ≤ 0.12.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    23

  • org.apache.qpid•proton-j

    < 0.12.1

References (11)