National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0999
Original release date:03/23/2006
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The SSL server implementation in NILE.NLM in Novell NetWare 6.5 and Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) allows a client to force the server to use weak encryption by stating that a weak cipher is required for client compatibility, which might allow remote attackers to decrypt contents of an SSL protected session.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-1043
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?10100633.htm
External Source: XF
Name: netware-nile-forced-weak-encryption(25382)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 24048
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1015799
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19324
