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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2018-15919

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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2018-15919

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/28/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/09/2018
Modified
02/20/2020

Description

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.'

Solution(s)

  • openbsd-openssh-upgrade-latest

References

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