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CVE-2018-15473
OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until…
Medium5.9EPSS 98.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 98.7% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (18)
- GLSA-201810-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 1041487 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- 45233 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/906236 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 45210 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181101-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/779974d35b4859c07bc3cb8a12c74b43b0a7d1e0 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- USN-3809-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180821 [SECURITY] [DLA-1474-1] openssh security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 105140 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- DSA-4280 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 45939 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_transferred
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2018-0011 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/15/5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- RHSA-2019:0711 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2143 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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