CVE-2016-0703: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The get_client_master_key function in s2_srvr.c in the SSLv2 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a accepts a nonzero CLIENT-MASTER-KEY CLEAR-KEY-LENGTH value for an arbitrary cipher, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to determine the MASTER-KEY value and decrypt TLS ciphertext data by leveraging a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle, a related issue to CVE-2016-0800.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8ze; 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; …

Published 2016-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.