CVE-2016-8610

mediumpriority · attend · 54EPSS 0.397 · 99 %ileexploit · PoCDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

39.7% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

92 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

cujanovic/CVE-2016-8610-PoCCVE-2016-8610 (SSL Death Alert) PoCPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (92)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Dell Secure Connect Gateway <5.36.00.16all versionscert_bundDE
F5 ARXall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:f5:arx:-
FreeBSD Project FreeBSD OS 10.1-RELEASE-p42all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:10.1:p42
FreeBSD Project FreeBSD OS 10.2-RELEASE-p25all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:10.2:p25
FreeBSD Project FreeBSD OS 10.3-RELEASE-p12all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:10.3:p12
FreeBSD Project FreeBSD OS 9.3-RELEASE-p50all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:9.3:p50
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Dell Secure Connect Gateway< 5.36.00.16cert_bundDE
OpenSSL OpenSSL≤ All 0.9.8enisa_euvdEU
OpenSSL OpenSSL≤ 1.0.2 through 1.0.2henisa_euvdEU
OpenSSL OpenSSL≤ 1.1.0enisa_euvdEU
OpenSSL OpenSSL≤ All 1.0.1enisa_euvdEU
debian debian linux= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fujitsu m10-1 firmware< xcp2361nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fujitsu:m10-1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fujitsu m10-1 firmwarexcp3000 → xcp3070nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fujitsu:m10-1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fujitsu m10-4 firmware< xcp2361nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fujitsu:m10-4_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fujitsu m10-4 firmwarexcp3000 → xcp3070nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fujitsu:m10-4_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fujitsu m10-4s firmware< xcp2361nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fujitsu:m10-4s_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-0180Dell Data Protection Advisor: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-01-20csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell Data Protection Advisor ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen und nicht näher spezifizierte Angriffe zu starten.
WID-SEC-W-2026-3112FreeBSD OS: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2016-11-02csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in FreeBSD OS ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-11-13modified 2026-06-17

references (89)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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