Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2016-0822 |
Date Published: | 25 Sep 2016 |
Severity: | N/A |
Last Updated: | Sunday 03 December, 2017 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2016-2183 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | SSL Clients. |
Vulnerability Description | 3DES is a widely supported stream cipher often preferred by TLS servers and other servers using encrypted sessions. Recent cryptanalysis results one of which is the SWEET32 exploit biases in the 3DES keystroke to recover repeatedly encrypted plain-texts. As a result 3DES can no longer be seen as providing a sufficient level of security for encrypted sessions. |
This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: SSL Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Weak SSL 3DES Cipher Suites