CVE-2015-8838
ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 uses a client SSL option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof
02 Description
ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 uses a client SSL option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof
03 Exploitation and scoring
- 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
- 1.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-05-16 10:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 08:29Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-03-31
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284Improper Access ControlPillar
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- def04569acfef0f85c486c005b6caa3151b659a4b2185d9803117612acefda95
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2952-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-1
- bugs.php.nethttps://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69669
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1173http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00058.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1166http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00056.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2952-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-2
- php.nethttp://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- git.php.nethttp://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97aa752fee61fccdec361279adbfb17a3c60f3f4
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1167http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00057.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1145http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00052.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- php5 Fixed in 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.16
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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