Name: CVE-2017-17878: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-12-27T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-17878, CWE-327, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.016

An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO="des" setting).

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

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