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CVE-2015-8838

MEDIUM 5.9 CVSS 3.0
Published
May 16, 2016
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
secalert@redhat.com
Weakness
CWE-284
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 uses a client SSL option to mean that SSL is optional, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a cleartext-downgrade attack, a related issue to CVE-2015-3152.

Affected products and versions

  • PHP — Up to and including 5.4.42
  • PHP versions 5.5.0, 5.5.0alpha1, 5.5.0alpha2, 5.5.0alpha3, 5.5.0alpha4, 5.5.0alpha5, 5.5.0alpha6, 5.5.0beta1, 5.5.0beta2, 5.5.0beta3, 5.5.0beta4, 5.5.0rc1, 5.5.0rc2, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.5.7, 5.5.8, 5.5.9, 5.5.10, 5.5.11, 5.5.12, 5.5.13, 5.5.14, 5.5.15, 5.5.16, 5.5.17, 5.5.18, 5.5.19, 5.5.20, 5.5.21, 5.5.22, 5.5.23, 5.5.24, 5.5.25, 5.5.26, 5.6.0alpha1, 5.6.0alpha2, 5.6.0alpha3, 5.6.0alpha4, 5.6.0alpha5, 5.6.0beta1, 5.6.0beta2, 5.6.0beta3, 5.6.0beta4, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.6.8, 5.6.9, 5.6.10

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