CVE-2015-2808

CVE-2015-2808, also known as the "Bar Mitzvah" issue, describes a weakness in the RC4 algorithm used in TLS and SSL protocols, making it susceptible to plaintext-recovery attacks. This vulnerability affects a wide range of products from vendors including Canonical, Debian, IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is a medium-severity vulnerability that can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to the compromise of initial bytes of encrypted data. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor readily available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.