Medium
Security advisory
yaws_config.erl in Yaws through 2.0.2 and/or 2.0.7 loads obsolete TLS ciphers, as demonstrated by ones that allow Sweet32 attacks, if running on an Erlang/OTP virtual machine with a version less than 21.0.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-12872
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
yaws_config.erl in Yaws through 2.0.2 and/or 2.0.7 loads obsolete TLS ciphers, as demonstrated by ones that allow Sweet32 attacks, if running on an Erlang/OTP virtual machine with a version less than 21.0.
osv:CVE-2020-12872
Complete source record
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"summary": "yaws_config.erl in Yaws through 2.0.2 and/or 2.0.7 loads obsolete TLS ciphers, as demonstrated by ones that allow Sweet32 attacks, if running on an Erlang/OTP virtual machine with a version less than 21.0.",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:09.146800937Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://medium.com/%40charlielabs101/cve-2020-12872-df315411aa70",
"https://github.com/erlyaws/yaws/releases",
"https://sweet32.info/",
"https://github.com/erlyaws/yaws/issues/402",
"https://github.com/erlyaws/yaws/blob/c0fd79f17d52628fcec527da7fa3e788c283c445/src/yaws_config.erl#L2068-L2075"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382483,
"published_at": "2020-05-15T19:15:12.087+00:00"
}