Information Exposure

Affecting openssh package, versions <0.0.0

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Overview

Remotely observable behaviour in auth-gss2.c in OpenSSH through 7.8 could be used by remote attackers to detect existence of users on a target system when GSS2 is in use. NOTE: the discoverer states 'We understand that the OpenSSH developers do not want to treat such a username enumeration (or "oracle") as a vulnerability.'

References

CVSS Score

5.3
low severity
  • Attack Vector
    Network
  • Attack Complexity
    Low
  • Privileges Required
    None
  • User Interaction
    None
  • Scope
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality
    Low
  • Integrity
    None
  • Availability
    None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVE
CVE-2018-15919
CWE
CWE-200
Snyk ID
SNYK-UBUNTU1804-OPENSSH-368621
Disclosed
28 Aug, 2018
Published
25 Sep, 2018