VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-1141

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.99%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2001-07-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

The Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in SSLeay and OpenSSL before 0.9.6b allows attackers to use the output of small PRNG requests to determine the internal state information, which could be used by attackers to predict future pseudo-random numbers.

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