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CVE-2000-0535 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSH for FreeBSD do not properly check)

OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSH for FreeBSD do not properly check for the existence of the /dev/random or /dev/urandom devices, which are absent on FreeBSD Alpha systems, which causes them to produce weak keys which may be more easily broken.

CVE IDCVE-2000-0535
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score5.0
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2000-06-12
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionOpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSH for FreeBSD do not properly check for the existence of the /dev/random or /dev/urandom devices, which are absent on FreeBSD Alpha systems, which causes them to produce weak keys which may be more easily broken.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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