CVE-2014-3511: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 14.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ssl23_get_client_hello function in s23_srvr.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1i allows man-in-the-middle attackers to force the use of TLS 1.0 by triggering ClientHello message fragmentation in communication between a client and server that both support later TLS versions, related to a "protocol downgrade" issue.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0a only; version 1.0.0b only; version 1.0.0c only; version 1.0.0d only; version 1.0.0e only; …

Published 2014-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.