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CVE-2017-17428

37
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-17428 describes a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle vulnerability, also known as a ROBOT attack, affecting Cavium Nitrox SSL, Nitrox V SSL, and TurboSSL SDKs, as well as Cisco products utilizing these SDKs. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) allows remote attackers to decrypt TLS ciphertext data with high confidentiality impact, though it requires high attack complexity. While not currently on the CISA KEV catalog, a Metasploit scanner module exists, and the CVE has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of its potential.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cavium:nitrox_ssl_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cavium:nitrox_v_ssl_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cavium:octeon_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cavium:octeon_ssl_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cavium:turbossl_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
14.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Scanner for Bleichenbacher Oracle in RSA PKCS #1 v1.5 · Jun 17, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1482 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171212-bleichenbacher
Third Party Advisory
cavium.com / security-advisory-cve-2017-17428.html
Vendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/144389
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/102170
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039984
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry