vulnerability

Arch Linux: Authentication bypass (CVE-2018-10933)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 17, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability has been discovered in libssh versions prior to 0.7.6 and 0.8.4, in the server-side state machine. By presenting the server an SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS message in place of the SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST message which the server would expect to initiate authentication, the attacker could successfully authenticate without any credentials, resulting in unauthorized access.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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