CVE-2008-0166

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

70.72% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 99.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2008-05-13 17:00Z18 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-07 07:39Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2008-01-09

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-338Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

d631485ce6bf97419f1bb8ef3b9a606fa3b1b933ca54c7756449b7c5f4a77cc7

• www.debian.orgDSA-1576http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576vendor-advisory
• www.exploit-db.com5622https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5622exploit
• secunia.com30221http://secunia.com/advisories/30221third-party-advisory
• sourceforge.net[rsyncrypto-devel] 20080523 Advisory - Rsyncrypto maybe affected from Debian OpenSSL reduced entropy problemhttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=48367252.7070603%40shemesh.biz&forum_name=rsyncrypto-develmailing-list
• www.debian.orgDSA-1571http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571vendor-advisory
• www.securityfocus.com29179http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29179vdb-entry
• www.securityfocus.com20080515 Debian generated SSH-Keys working exploithttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492112/100/0/threadedmailing-list
• secunia.com30239http://secunia.com/advisories/30239third-party-advisory
• secunia.com30220http://secunia.com/advisories/30220third-party-advisory
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-612-7http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-7vendor-advisory
• secunia.com30231http://secunia.com/advisories/30231third-party-advisory
• exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comopenssl-rng-weak-security(42375)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42375vdb-entry
• metasploit.comhttp://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl/
• secunia.com30249http://secunia.com/advisories/30249third-party-advisory
• www.securitytracker.com1020017http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020017vdb-entry
• www.exploit-db.com5632https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5632exploit
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-612-4http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-4vendor-advisory
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-612-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-2vendor-advisory
• www.us-cert.govTA08-137Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-137A.htmlthird-party-advisory
• www.kb.cert.orgVU#925211http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925211third-party-advisory
• www.exploit-db.com5720https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5720exploit
• secunia.com30136http://secunia.com/advisories/30136third-party-advisory
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-612-3http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-3vendor-advisory
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-612-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1vendor-advisory
• 16years.secvuln.infohttps://16years.secvuln.info
• news.ycombinator.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333169