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HistoryJan 18, 2017 - 6:23 p.m.

Nextcloud: Nextcloud.com is vulnerable to SWEET32 attack

2017-01-1818:23:36
pkkothawade
hackerone.com
191

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.1%

Researchers have found new attack against 3DES-CBC cipher in TLS,that they can decrypt customer data using a method called SWEET32 Birthday Attack.

This Vulnerability has got CVE-2016-2183 and has cvss score 5.0

This vulnerability can be found manually by simply using nmap script

nmap -Pn -p --script ssl-enum-ciphers ip

Mitigation for SWEET32 attack

->Prefer minimum 128-bit cipher suites

->Limit the length of TLS sessions with a 64-bit cipher, which could be done with TLS renegotiation or closing and starting a new connection

-> Disable cipher suites using 3DES
Reference link: https://sweet32.info/