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CVE-2011-4619

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-4619 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenSSL versions prior to 0.9.8s and 1.0.0f, specifically within its Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) implementation. This flaw allows remote attackers to induce high CPU consumption by improperly handling handshake restarts. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), it is a network-based attack with low complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.8iCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.8i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.8jCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.8j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.8kCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.8k:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.8lCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.8l:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.8mCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:0.9.8m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
16.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1664 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openssl-0:0.9.7a-43.18.el4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openssl-0:0.9.8e-20.el5_7.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openssl-0:1.0.0-20.el6_2.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 1.0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor6-0:6.2-20120209.0.el6_2
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openssl096b
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openssl097a
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openssl098e

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-4619Moderate

openssl: SGC restart DoS attack

Jan 4, 2012

References

aix.software.ibm.com / aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory3.asc
h20000.www2.hp.com / bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092905.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00017.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00018.html
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1306.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1307.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1308.html
secunia.com / advisories/48528
secunia.com / advisories/57353
support.apple.com / kb/HT5784
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2390
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/737740
US Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openssl.org / news/secadv_20120104.txt
Vendor Advisory