CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-5107

7.5 HIGH Published 2013-03-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

The default configuration of OpenSSH through 6.1 enforces a fixed time limit between establishing a TCP connection and completing a login, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection-slot exhaustion) by periodically making many new TCP connections.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openssh (<= 6.1) • openbsd openssh 1.2 • openbsd openssh 1.2.1 • openbsd openssh 1.2.2 • openbsd openssh 1.2.3 • openbsd openssh 1.2.27 • openbsd openssh 1.3 • openbsd openssh 1.5 • openbsd openssh 1.5.7 • openbsd openssh 1.5.8 • openbsd openssh 2.1 • openbsd openssh 2.1.1 • openbsd openssh 2.2 • openbsd openssh 2.3 • openbsd openssh 2.3.1 • openbsd openssh 2.5 • openbsd openssh 2.5.1 • openbsd openssh 2.5.2 • openbsd openssh 2.9 • openbsd openssh 2.9.9 • openbsd openssh 2.9.9p2 • openbsd openssh 2.9p1 • openbsd openssh 2.9p2 • openbsd openssh 3.0 • openbsd openssh 3.0.1 • openbsd openssh 3.0.1p1 • openbsd openssh 3.0.2 • openbsd openssh 3.0.2p1 • openbsd openssh 3.0p1 • openbsd openssh 3.1 • openbsd openssh 3.1p1 • openbsd openssh 3.2 • openbsd openssh 3.2.2 • openbsd openssh 3.2.2p1 • openbsd openssh 3.2.3p1 • openbsd openssh 3.3 • openbsd openssh 3.3p1 • openbsd openssh 3.4 • openbsd openssh 3.4p1 • openbsd openssh 3.5 • openbsd openssh 3.5p1 • openbsd openssh 3.6 • openbsd openssh 3.6.1 • openbsd openssh 3.6.1p1 • openbsd openssh 3.6.1p2 • openbsd openssh 3.7 • openbsd openssh 3.7.1 • openbsd openssh 3.7.1p1 • openbsd openssh 3.7.1p2 • openbsd openssh 3.8 • openbsd openssh 3.8.1 • openbsd openssh 3.8.1p1 • openbsd openssh 3.9 • openbsd openssh 3.9.1 • openbsd openssh 3.9.1p1 • openbsd openssh 4.0 • openbsd openssh 4.0p1 • openbsd openssh 4.1 • openbsd openssh 4.1p1 • openbsd openssh 4.2 … and 23 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References