CVE-2017-2659 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

Published: 2019-03-20

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

[UNKNOWN]

dropbear

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`fixed in 2013.59`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-11807	It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00275.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2659
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/d7784616409a#l1.86

History

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Subscriptions

Dropbear Ssh Project Dropbear Ssh

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-03-20T20:44:51.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:02:07.018Z

Reserved: 2016-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-2659

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-21T15:59:57.093

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:23:55.420

Link: CVE-2017-2659

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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