CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-0814

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2012-01-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-01-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-255, CWE-532

Description

The auth_parse_options function in auth-options.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 5.7 provides debug messages containing authorized_keys command options, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading these messages, as demonstrated by the shared user account required by Gitolite. NOTE: this can cross privilege boundaries because a user account may intentionally have no shell or filesystem access, and therefore may have no supported way to read an authorized_keys file in its own home directory.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openssh (<= 5.6) • 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 • 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 … and 18 more

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness

References