Description
The Raccoon attack exploits a flaw in the TLS specification which can lead to an attacker being able to compute the pre-master secret in connections which have used a Diffie-Hellman (DH) based ciphersuite. In such a case this would result in the attacker being able to eavesdrop on all encrypted communications sent over that TLS connection. The attack can only be exploited if an implementation re-uses a DH secret across multiple TLS connections. Note that this issue only impacts DH ciphersuites and not ECDH ciphersuites. This issue affects OpenSSL 1.0.2 which is out of support and no longer receiving public updates. OpenSSL 1.1.1 is not vulnerable to this issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2w (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2v).
Published: 2020-09-09
Score: 3.7 Low
EPSS: 1.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2378-1 openssl1.0 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-12758 The Raccoon attack exploits a flaw in the TLS specification which can lead to an attacker being able to compute the pre-master secret in connections which have used a Diffie-Hellman (DH) based ciphersuite. In such a case this would result in the attacker being able to eavesdrop on all encrypted communications sent over that TLS connection. The attack can only be exploited if an implementation re-uses a DH secret across multiple TLS connections. Note that this issue only impacts DH ciphersuites and not ECDH ciphersuites. This issue affects OpenSSL 1.0.2 which is out of support and no longer receiving public updates. OpenSSL 1.1.1 is not vulnerable to this issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2w (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2v).
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4504-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7018-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
History

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: openssl

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-16T14:10:35.131Z

Reserved: 2019-12-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-1968

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T06:54:00.367Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-09T14:15:12.507

Modified: 2026-04-16T15:16:41.387

Link: CVE-2020-1968

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-09-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-1968 - Bugzilla

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