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CVE-2006-0898

Date: February 25, 2006

Crypt::CBC Perl module 2.16 and earlier, when running in RandomIV mode, uses an initialization vector (IV) of 8 bytes, which results in weaker encryption when used with a cipher that requires a larger block size than 8 bytes, such as Rijndael.

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (17)

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-996

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31493

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/488

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/18755

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/19303

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24954

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0630.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/19187

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-15.xml

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0898

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/20899

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425966/100/0/threaded

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-0898

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16802

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-0898

Severity Score

3.7

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.6
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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