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CVE-2015-2808

Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.7
EPSS
0.73851
Risk score
40.65
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2015-04-01
Modified
2026-05-28
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2015-2896, GHSA-JCJ6-C96P-JCMM
Products
n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
euvd EUVD-2015-2896

Description

The RC4 algorithm, as used in the TLS protocol and SSL protocol, does not properly combine state data with key data during the initialization phase, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct plaintext-recovery attacks against the initial bytes of a stream by sniffing network traffic that occasionally relies on keys affected by the Invariance Weakness, and then using a brute-force approach involving LSB values, aka the "Bar Mitzvah" issue.

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