CVE-2016-2183 Weak cryptography in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2183?

CVE-2016-2183 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 1 Sep 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2183?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Cisco Content Security Management Appliance, Nodejs Node.js, Openssl Openssl, Oracle Database, Python Python, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2183?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-2183 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-2183 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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• CVE-2013-3395 Cross-site request forgery in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2021-1447 Cisco Content Security Management Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Medium 6.7

All Nodejs Node.js vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-2183, GHSA-w2rw-pv8p-h9c8, PSF-2016-4, RHSA-2017:0462, RHSA-2018:2123, SUSE-SU-2017:0716-1 and 5 more.