CVE-2002-20001
The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not pub
CVSS
7.5
Alto
EPSS
24.6%
p98
KEV
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Exploit Today
29
0-100
Publicado: 11 nov 2021 · Última mod.: 23 sept 2026 · CWE-400
The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not public keys, and trigger expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations, aka a D(HE)at or D(HE)ater attack. The client needs very little CPU resources and network bandwidth. The attack may be more disruptive in cases where a client can require a server to select its largest supported key size. The basic attack scenario is that the client must claim that it can only communicate with DHE, and the server must be configured to allow DHE.
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- www.suse.comhttps://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000020510
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- dheatattack.comhttps://dheatattack.com
- dheatattack.gitlab.iohttps://dheatattack.gitlab.io/
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- github.comhttps://github.com/mozilla/ssl-config-generator/issues/162
- gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/dheatattack/dheater
- ieeexplore.ieee.orghttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10374117