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Ubuntu: USN-4854-1 (CVE-2018-7749): AsyncSSH vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 12, 2018
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The SSH server implementation of AsyncSSH before 1.12.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-asyncssh
Title
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