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Ssl Tls Server Vulnerable To Heartbleed Attacks

Description

This detector identifies servers vulnerable to the Heartbleed attack (CVE-2014-0160), which allows attackers to read protected memory contents from vulnerable OpenSSL systems. The vulnerability enables extraction of sensitive data like private keys, passwords, and session tokens by exploiting a buffer over-read in OpenSSL's TLS heartbeat extension.

Weakness:

016 - Insecure encryption algorithm - SSL/TLS

Category: Information Collection

Detection Strategy

    Establishes a TLS connection with the target server offering multiple cipher suites

    Sends a malformed heartbeat request with a payload length of 16384 bytes

    Reports a vulnerability if the server responds with a heartbeat message (record type 24), indicating it is leaking memory contents

    Tests this attack vector across all supported TLS versions on the target server