CVE-2016-6225 Weak cryptography in n/a

What is CVE-2016-6225?

CVE-2016-6225 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

xbcrypt in Percona XtraBackup before 2.3.6 and 2.4.x before 2.4.5 does not properly set the initialization vector (IV) for encryption, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from encrypted backup files via a Chosen-Plaintext attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-6394.

Weakness: CWE-326

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6225?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Percona Xtrabackup.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6225?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-6225 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6225 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 GHSA-qgjv-rwc2-2rr2, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6225.