CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5715
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-10-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
DenyHosts 2.6 processes OpenSSH sshd "not listed in AllowUsers" log messages with an incorrect regular expression that does not match an IP address, which might allow remote attackers to avoid detection and blocking when making invalid login attempts with a username not present in AllowUsers, as demonstrated by the root username, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4323.
Affected configurations
• denyhosts denyhosts 2.6
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181213 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://osvdb.org/45298 osvdb.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237449 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181213 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://osvdb.org/45298 osvdb.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237449 bugzilla.redhat.com