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CVE-2018-15473

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.3 · CWE-362
5.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)99%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/15/5 ↗