CVE-2016-2181
HIGH7.5EPSS 24.3%Published: 9/16/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/opensslfrom 0, < 1.0.2h-r4
- Debian/opensslfrom 0, < 1.0.2i-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |