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CVE-2016-7054

45
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7054 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0c. Specifically, TLS connections utilizing CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites can be crashed by corrupting large payloads. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability, though it is not considered exploitable beyond a DoS. While not present in the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and it has garnered community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.0aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.1.0a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.0bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.1.0b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
32.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-40899 · Dec 11, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3239 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-7054Important

openssl: Corrupting larger payloads when using ChaCha20/Poly1305 ciphersuites leads to DoS

Nov 10, 2016

References

h20566.www2.hpe.com / hpsc/doc/public/display
exploit-db.com / exploits/40899
openssl.org / news/secadv/20161110.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94238
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037261