CVE-2010-4252
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 8.3%EU EUVD
OpenSSL before 1.0.0c, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not properly validate the public parameters in the J-PAKE protocol, which allows remote attackers to bypass the need for knowledge of the shared secret, and successfully authenticate, by sending crafted values in each round of the protocol.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 8.3% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4225)
- Published
- December 6, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4225 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openssl / openssl
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References
- http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=20098(Patch)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=129916880600544&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497251507577&w=2
- http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20101202.txt
- http://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdf(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42469(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57353
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024823
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.668471
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1004564
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45163
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3120(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3122(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659297(Patch)
- https://github.com/seb-m/jpake(Patch)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19039
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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