CVE-2017-2659 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Vendors	Products
Dropbear Ssh Project	Dropbear Ssh

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

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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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-03-20T20:44:51

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

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

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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