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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2016-20012

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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2016-20012

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/15/2021
Created
11/28/2021
Added
11/26/2021
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

OpenSSH through 8.7 allows remote attackers, who have a suspicion that a certain combination of username and public key is known to an SSH server, to test whether this suspicion is correct. This occurs because a challenge is sent only when that combination could be valid for a login session. NOTE: the vendor does not recognize user enumeration as a vulnerability for this product

Solution(s)

  • openbsd-openssh-upgrade-latest

References

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