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CWE-757

Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade')

A protocol or its implementation supports interaction between multiple actors and allows those actors to negotiate which algorithm should be used as a protection mechanism such as encryption or authentication, but it does not select the strongest algorithm that is available to both parties.

30
Assigned CVEs
286th
Commonality Rank
7.0
Avg CVSS
0.0%
In CISA KEV

Volume and Severity of Assigned CVEs Over Time

Volume of CVEs assigned to CWE-757 and their average CVSS base score over time.

Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Mar 1, 2018
8 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Jul 17, 2026
7 days ago

Top CVEs Assigned This CWE

Top CVEs that have been assigned this CWE. A single CVE can have multiple CWE assignments, though many have just one.

30 CVEs · Highest risk first

CVEPublishedCVSSRiskKEVExploit
CVE-2026-53712HIGH
SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) is part of the family of Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL, RFC 4422) authentication mechanisms. Prior to 3.
Jul 17, 20268.235NONO
CVE-2026-54291MEDIUM
pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. In releases 42.7.4 through 42.7.11, channelBinding=require connections can be silently downgraded from SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS with chan
Jul 6, 20265.931NONO
CVE-2024-38883CRITICAL
An issue in Horizon Business Services Inc. Caterease 16.0.1.1663 through 24.0.1.2405 and possibly later versions, allows a remote attacker to perform a Drop Encryption Level attack
Aug 2, 20249.130NONO
CVE-2017-9269CRITICAL
In libzypp before August 2018 GPG keys attached to YUM repositories were not correctly pinned, allowing malicious repository mirrors to silently downgrade to unsigned repositories
Mar 1, 20189.829NONO
CVE-2026-4942MEDIUM
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote attacker to send a specifically crafted message and downgrade the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to a version disabled in
Jul 17, 20265.928NONO
CVE-2026-2673MEDIUM
Issue summary: An OpenSSL TLS 1.3 server may fail to negotiate the expected preferred key exchange group when its key exchange group configuration includes the default by using the
Mar 13, 20266.528NONO
CVE-2019-14887CRITICAL
A flaw was found when an OpenSSL security provider is used with Wildfly, the 'enabled-protocols' value in the Wildfly configuration isn't honored. An attacker could target the traf
Mar 16, 20209.128NONO
CVE-2024-4995CRITICAL
Wapro ERP Desktop is vulnerable to MS SQL protocol downgrade request from a server side, what could lead to an unencrypted communication vulnerable to data interception and modific
Dec 18, 20249.827NONO
CVE-2026-48747MEDIUM
Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Prior to 7.4.13 and 8.0.13, MailomatRequestParser::validateSignature() parsed X-MO
Jul 14, 20265.326NONO
CVE-2026-6092MEDIUM
When HAVE_ENCRYPT_THEN_MAC is configured, the implementation could fall back to MAC-then-Encrypt rather than enforcing Encrypt-then-MAC.
Jun 25, 20265.326NONO
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CVE Severity & Scoring

This CWEGlobal (All CVEs)
0.0-0.9
1.0-1.9
2.0-2.9
3.0-3.9
10%
4.0-4.9
23%
19%
5.0-5.9
13%
16%
6.0-6.9
23%
26%
7.0-7.9
13%
11%
8.0-8.9
17%
14%
9.0-10.0
unknown
CVSS Score Range

Exploit Exposure

Exploit activity across CVEs assigned to this CWE, including CVEs that carry other CWE assignments.

CISA KEV
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
ExploitDB
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%

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Media Mentions

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