CVE-2015-0289 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenSSL versions prior to 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0r, 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2a. It stems from improper handling of missing outer ContentInfo in the PKCS#7 implementation, allowing an attacker to crash applications processing malformed ASN.1 encoded PKCS#7 data. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available. Despite this, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.9.8zeCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.