CVE-2014-3616 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3616?

CVE-2014-3616 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 8 Dec 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

nginx 0.5.6 through 1.7.4, when using the same shared ssl_session_cache or ssl_session_ticket_key for multiple servers, can reuse a cached SSL session for an unrelated context, which allows remote attackers with certain privileges to conduct "virtual host confusion" attacks.

Weakness: CWE-613

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3616?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, F5 Nginx.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3616?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-3616 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3616 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3616, DLA-55-1, DSA-3029-1, GHSA-ch64-2v27-7pwp, MGASA-2014-0427, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3616 and 1 more.