vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15599: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 21, 2018
Added
Nov 9, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The recv_msg_userauth_request function in svr-auth.c in Dropbear through 2018.76 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability because username validity affects how fields in SSH_MSG_USERAUTH messages are handled, a similar issue to CVE-2018-15473 in an unrelated codebase.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-dropbear
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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