---
title: "OpenSSL DROWN Vulnerability announced"
description: "Issue: OpenSSL vulnerability called \"DROWN\" was announced today (CVE-2016-0800). Status: Out Systems Architecture team is performing a full audit across all of our platforms, as well as actively..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/ssl/openssl-drown-vulnerability-announced/
date: 2016-03-01
modified: 2016-03-01
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Secure Socket Layer (SSL)"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# OpenSSL DROWN Vulnerability announced

| Issue: | OpenSSL vulnerability called “DROWN” was announced today (CVE-2016-0800). |
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| Status: | Out Systems Architecture team is performing a full audit across all of our platforms, as well as actively monitoring for related issues. Updated notifications will be posted on our [status page](https://status.inmotionhosting.com/). |
| Who is impacted? | Only users that have *chosen* to keep the insecure SSLv2 ciphers active on their servers. |

## Additional information

You can read the full details on the following pages:

- [https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt](https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/drown](https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/drown)