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Yelp · Report #199436

Yelp.com is vulnerable to SWEET32 attack

Informativestatus
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9 Nov 2017disclosed

How it was found

Researchers have found new attack against 3DES-CBC cipher in TLS,that they can decrypt customer data using a method called SWEET32 Birthday Attack.

This Vulnerability has got CVE-2016-2183 and has cvss score 5.0

This vulnerability can be found manually by simply using nmap script

nmap -Pn -p --script ssl-enum-ciphers ip

Mitigation for SWEET32 attack

->Prefer minimum 128-bit cipher suites

->Limit the length of TLS sessions with a 64-bit cipher, which could be done with TLS renegotiation or closing and starting a new connection

-> Disable cipher suites using 3DES Reference link: https://sweet32.info/

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