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Is Windchill vulnerable to the DROWN SSL (CVE-2016-0800 ) vulnerability ?

Modified: 06-May-2016   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 11.0
  • FlexPLM 9.1 to 10.2

Description

  • Is Windchill vulnerable to the DROWN SSL vulnerability (CVE-2016-0800 ) ?
  • DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption) is a vulnerability in the SSLv2 protocol
  • It allows brute force methods to determine the servers Encryption keys
  • Once the keys are obtained any encrypted traffic to or from the server can be decrypted.
  • For additional information see:
  • https://drownattack.com/
  • https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt
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