CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1029

7.5 HIGH Published 1999-05-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-05-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

SSH server (sshd2) before 2.0.12 does not properly record login attempts if the connection is closed before the maximum number of tries, allowing a remote attacker to guess the password without showing up in the audit logs.

Affected configurations

• ssh ssh2 2.0 • ssh ssh2 2.0.1 • ssh ssh2 2.0.2 • ssh ssh2 2.0.3 • ssh ssh2 2.0.4 • ssh ssh2 2.0.5 • ssh ssh2 2.0.6 • ssh ssh2 2.0.7 • ssh ssh2 2.0.8 • ssh ssh2 2.0.9 • ssh ssh2 2.0.10 • ssh ssh2 2.0.11

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-221 Information Loss or Omission weakness
  • CWE-223 Omission of Security-relevant Information weakness

References