CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-2659

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-03-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-03-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-209, CWE-287

Description

It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

Affected configurations

• dropbear ssh project dropbear ssh (< 2013.59)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-209 Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information weakness
  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References