CVE-2005-2969: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SSL/TLS server implementation in OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7h and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8a, when using the SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING option, disables a verification step that is required for preventing protocol version rollback attacks, which allows remote attackers to force a client and server to use a weaker protocol than needed via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.7a only; version 0.9.7b only; version 0.9.7c only; version 0.9.7d only; version 0.9.7e only; …

Published 2005-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.