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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-7750): Paramiko vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-7750): Paramiko vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
03/09/2021

Description

transport.py in the SSH server implementation of Paramiko before 1.17.6, 1.18.x before 1.18.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.2, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests, as demonstrated by channel-open. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-paramiko
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-paramiko

References

  • USN-3603-1
  • USN-3603-2
  • CVE-2018-7750

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