This blog post will discuss how to Mitigate DROWN CVE-2016-0800.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ll have heard (or likely to hear about soon) the drown attack. From the Red Hat site:
“A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 (SSLv2) protocol. An attacker can potentially use this flaw to decrypt RSA-encrypted cipher text from a connection using a newer SSL/TLS protocol version, allowing them to decrypt such connections. This cross-protocol attack is publicly referred to as DROWN.
Find out more about CVE-2016-0800 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.”
The following graphic should help explain the vulnerability:
In short, disable SSLv2 if you do not need it (similar to the way SSLv3 was disabled due to POODLE).
So how about those services?
- MySQL uses TLS1.0 for versions < 5.7.10
- MySQL uses a configuration TLS version when using >= 5.7.10
- MongoDB uses a configuration variable for the TLS for version when using >= 3.0.7
Please respond in the comments with any questions!
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