CVE-2015-8838 - Improper Access Control

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 uses a client SSL option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a cleartext-downgrade attack, a related issue to CVE-2015-3152.

ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 uses a client SSL option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a cleartext-downgrade attack, a related issue to CVE-2015-3152.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

PHP

First reported 9 years ago

2016-05-16 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-01 03:01:00

Affected Software

PHP 5.5.0

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 alpha1

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 alpha2

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 alpha3

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 alpha4

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 alpha5

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 alpha6

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 beta1

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 beta2

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 beta3

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 beta4

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 release candidate 1

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.0 release candidate 2

5.5.0

PHP 5.5.1

5.5.1

PHP 5.5.2

5.5.2

PHP 5.5.3

5.5.3

PHP 5.5.4

5.5.4

PHP 5.5.5

5.5.5

PHP 5.5.6

5.5.6

PHP 5.5.7

5.5.7

PHP 5.5.8

5.5.8

PHP 5.5.9

5.5.9

PHP 5.5.10

5.5.10

PHP 5.5.11

5.5.11

PHP 5.5.12

5.5.12

PHP 5.5.13

5.5.13

PHP 5.5.14

5.5.14

PHP 5.5.15

5.5.15

PHP 5.5.16

5.5.16

PHP 5.5.17

5.5.17

PHP 5.5.18

5.5.18

PHP 5.5.19

5.5.19

PHP 5.5.20

5.5.20

PHP 5.5.21

5.5.21

PHP 5.5.22

5.5.22

PHP 5.5.23

5.5.23

PHP 5.5.24

5.5.24

PHP 5.5.25

5.5.25

PHP 5.5.26

5.5.26

PHP 5.6.0 alpha1

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha2

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha3

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha4

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha5

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta1

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta2

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta3

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta4

5.6.0

PHP PHP 5.6.1

5.6.1

PHP 5.6.2

5.6.2

PHP 5.6.3

5.6.3

PHP 5.6.4

5.6.4

PHP 5.6.5

5.6.5

PHP 5.6.6

5.6.6

PHP 5.6.7

5.6.7

PHP PHP 5.6.8

5.6.8

PHP PHP 5.6.9

5.6.9

PHP PHP 5.6.10

5.6.10

PHP PHP

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=97aa752fee61fccdec361279adbfb17a3c60f3f4

SUSE-SU-2016:1145

SUSE-SU-2016:1166

openSUSE-SU-2016:1167

openSUSE-SU-2016:1173

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

USN-2952-1

USN-2952-2

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69669

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