Is CVE-2008-1672 being actively exploited?

CVE-2008-1672 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2008-1672?

CVE-2008-1672 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2008-1672

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 5.0%EU EUVD

OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites," which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Key facts

CVSS score: 4.3 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
EPSS score: 5.0% (92th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2008-1673)
Published: May 29, 2008
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1673 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

canonical / ubuntu linux
openssl / openssl
openssl / openssl

References

http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30405(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30460(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30825(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30852(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30868(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31228(Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31288(Third Party Advisory)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml(Third Party Advisory)
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004(Third Party Advisory)
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606(Third Party Advisory)
http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt(Vendor Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492932/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405(Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020122(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42667(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html(Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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