CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17878
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-327
Description
An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO="des" setting).
Affected configurations
• valvesoftware steam link firmware (< 644)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness
References
- https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory