CVE-2016-7056: The OpenSSL Project openssl

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
The OpenSSL Project	openssl	affected openssl 1.0.1u

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.5	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0062, the 49th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 10 Sept 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

eprint.iacr.org/2016/1195
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801 vendor-advisoryredhat
git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8aed2a7548362e88e84a7feb795a3a97e8395008 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413 vendor-advisoryredhat
ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.0/common/016_libcrypto.patch.sig confirm
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037575 vdb-entrysectrack
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414 vendor-advisoryredhat
seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/52 mailing-listmlist
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773 vendor-advisorydebian
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7056 confirm
people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-7056.html confirm
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95375 vdb-entrybid
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.html vendor-advisoryredhat
ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.9/common/033_libcrypto.patch.sig confirm
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7056 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802 vendor-advisoryredhat

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