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High 7.5Published Sep 16, 2016

CVE-2016-2181The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cau…

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.

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CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.0, NVD)CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-189
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
1.0.1; 1.0.1a; 1.0.1b; 1.0.1c; 1.0.1d; 1.0.1e; 1.0.1f; 1.0.1g; and 22 more ranges
NVD
oracle linux
oracle:linux
6; 7
NVD

References

References

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