CVE-2000-0535

Medium CVSS 5

Published 2000-06-12 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0535, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0535

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N