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CVE-2016-2183

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.95707
Risk score
63.5
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2016-09-01
Modified
2026-05-29
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2016-3268, GHSA-W2RW-PV8P-H9C8
Products
n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
euvd EUVD-2016-3268

Description

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.

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