CVE-2017-3737

CVE-2017-3737: vulnerability in OpenSSL

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25Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 79%
exploitation probability
79%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
What the vendors declare (VEX)

Official vendor statements in CSAF/VEX format: whether their product is affected, already fixed, or ruled out — and why. These are the vendor's assertions, not Vexday's judgment.

Affected
3 products
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 · Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 · Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3
no_fix_planned: Will not fix
Fixed
13 products (279 components)
Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 Server · Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 Server · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) · and others 8
Not affected
7 products (23 components) — because the vulnerable code is not present in the product
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 · and others 2
OpenSSL 1.0.2 (starting from version 1.0.2b) introduced an "error state" mechanism. The intent was that if a fatal error occurred during a handshake then OpenSSL would move into the error state and would immediately fail if you attempted to continue the handshake. This works as designed for the explicit handshake functions (SSL_do_handshake(), SSL_accept() and SSL_connect()), however due to a bug it does not work correctly if SSL_read() or SSL_write() is called directly. In that scenario, if the handshake fails then a fatal error will be returned in the initial function call. If SSL_read()/SSL_write() is subsequently called by the application for the same SSL object then it will succeed and the data is passed without being decrypted/encrypted directly from the SSL/TLS record layer. In order to exploit this issue an application bug would have to be present that resulted in a call to SSL_read()/SSL_write() being issued after having already received a fatal error. OpenSSL version 1.0.2b-1.0.2m are affected. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2n. OpenSSL 1.1.0 is not affected.