CVE-2014-3616

medium

Published 2014-12-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

nginx 0.5.6 through 1.7.4, when using the same shared ssl_session_cache or ssl_session_ticket_key for multiple servers, can reuse a cached SSL session for an unrelated context, which allows remote attackers with certain privileges to conduct "virtual host confusion" attacks.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.6.2-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.6.2-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.6.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.6.2-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.6.2-1`
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
f5	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"0.5.6","endExcluding":"1.6.2"}`	`1.6.2`
nginx	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"0.5.6","endExcluding":"1.6.2"}`	`1.6.2`
nginx	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"1.7.0","endExcluding":"1.7.5"}`	`1.7.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-613

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.