Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2016-8610
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
39.66%
OpenSSL
Original Filing — NVD Description
A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.