KB Article #175950

Validation Authority is Not Vulnerable to Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160)

Problem


* Customer needs to know the version of OpenSSL used in VA to determine whether it is vulnerable to the Heartbleed OpenSSL attack (CVE-2014-0160).

Resolution


-- VA 4.10.6 is based on OpenSSL 0.9.8, while 4.11.1 & 4.11.2 are based on OpenSSL 1.0.0.  Neither version of OpenSSL is affected by CVE-2014-0160 as they do not contain the vulnerable TLS heartbeat extension.