CVE-2015-3152

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Published 2016-05-16 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.9

Description

Oracle MySQL before 5.7.3, Oracle MySQL Connector/C (aka libmysqlclient) before 6.1.3, and MariaDB before 5.5.44 use the --ssl option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a cleartext-downgrade attack, aka a "BACKRONYM" attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

69%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
debian	8.0	affected
fedora	21	affected
fedora	22	affected
rhel	7.0	affected
rhel	7.1	affected
rhel	7.2	affected
rhel	7.3	affected
rhel	7.4	affected
rhel	7.5	affected
rhel	7.6	affected
rhel	7.7	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	mysql	`{"endIncluding":"5.7.2"}`
oracle	mysql_connector\/c	`{"endIncluding":"6.1.2"}`
mariadb	mariadb	`{"startIncluding":"5.5.0","endExcluding":"5.5.44"}`	`5.5.44`
php	php	`{"startIncluding":"5.4.0","endExcluding":"5.4.43"}`	`5.4.43`
mariadb	mariadb	`{"startIncluding":"10.0.0","endExcluding":"10.0.20"}`	`10.0.20`

References

CWEs

CWE-295

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

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