CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18594
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/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-415
Description
nse_libssh2.cc in Nmap 7.70 is subject to a denial of service condition due to a double free when an SSH connection fails, as demonstrated by a leading \n character to ssh-brute.nse or ssh-auth-methods.nse.
Affected configurations
• nmap nmap 7.70
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00073.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00075.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://github.com/AMatchandaHaystack/Research/blob/master/Nmap%26libsshDF Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/commit/350bbe0597d37ad67abe5fef8fba984707b4e9ad Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1077 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1227 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/nmap-announce/2019/0 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2018/q2/45 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00073.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00075.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://github.com/AMatchandaHaystack/Research/blob/master/Nmap%26libsshDF Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/commit/350bbe0597d37ad67abe5fef8fba984707b4e9ad Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1077 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1227 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/nmap-announce/2019/0 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2018/q2/45 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory