CVE-2014-3571 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenSSL versions prior to 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1k. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted DTLS message, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, with the primary impact being system availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite this, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.9.8zcCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0bCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0cCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0c:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0dCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0d:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.