CVE-2017-17427 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Radware Alteon devices with a firmware version between 31.0.0.0-31.0.3.0 are vulnerable to an adaptive-chosen ciphertext attack ("Bleichenbacher attack"). This allows an attacker to decrypt observed traffic that has been encrypted with the RSA cipher and to perform other private key operations.

Published: 2017-12-13

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: 70.5% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:radware:alteon_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:radware:alteon:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.70471.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102199
https://robotattack.org/
https://support.radware.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1010361/~/cve-2017-17427-adaptive-chosen-ciphertext-attack-vulnerability
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/144389

History

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Subscriptions

Radware Alteon Alteon Firmware

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-13T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:31.360Z

Reserved: 2017-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17427

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-13T16:29:00.317

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-17427

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-203

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