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CVE-2011-3389 Details

Description

The SSL protocol, as used in certain configurations in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and other products, encrypts data by using CBC mode with chained initialization vectors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers via a blockwise chosen-boundary attack (BCBA) on an HTTPS session, in conjunction with JavaScript code that uses (1) the HTML5 WebSocket API, (2) the Java URLConnection API, or (3) the Silverlight WebClient API, aka a "BEAST" attack.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/09/27/attack-against-tls-protected-communications/ CVEThird Party Advisory
http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/09/26/microsoft-releases-security-advisory-2588513.aspx CVEThird Party Advisory
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/09/26/is-ssl-broken-more-about-security-advisory-2588513.aspx CVEThird Party Advisory
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124B.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2016-001.html CVEThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-326Inadequate Encryption Strength[email protected]

Affected Products

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Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-3389
NVD Published Date:
Sep 6, 2011
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2011-3389 Details - Not Deferred