High 7.5Published Dec 6, 2010

CVE-2010-4252OpenSSL 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 se…

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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.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-287
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

openssl openssl openssl:openssl	through 1.0.0b; 0.9.1c; 0.9.2b; 0.9.3; 0.9.3a; 0.9.4; 0.9.5; 0.9.5; and 68 more ranges	NVD

References

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
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