CVE-2016-2107 is a padding-oracle vulnerability in the AES-NI implementation of OpenSSL versions before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h, affecting various products including Canonical, Debian, Google, and Red Hat. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.9) allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information from AES CBC sessions due to improper memory allocation during a padding check, stemming from an incorrect fix for a previous vulnerability. While not listed on CISA’s KEV, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating high awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.