CVE-2023-6056 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Bitdefender Total Security's HTTPS scanning, where it improperly trusts self-signed certificates using the RIPEMD-160 hashing algorithm without proper validation. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to establish Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) SSL connections to arbitrary websites, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. With a CVSS score of 7.4, the attack requires high complexity but no user interaction. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 27.0.25.115CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:bitdefender:total_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 27.0.25.115CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bitdefender:total_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.