CVE-2023-48795
The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to…
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- mitre
Description
The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in [email protected] and (if CBC is used) the [email protected] MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80, AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0, Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15, SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH through 18.2.0, ProFTPD before 1.3.8b (and before 1.3.9rc2), ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang XShell 7 before Build 0144, CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, Apache MINA sshd through 2.11.0, sshj through 0.37.0, TinySSH through 20230101, trilead-ssh2 6401, LANCOM LCOS and LANconfig, FileZilla before 3.66.4, Nova before 11.8, PKIX-SSH before 14.4, SecureCRT before 9.4.3, Transmit5 before 5.10.4, Win32-OpenSSH before 9.5.0.0p1-Beta, WinSCP before 6.2.2, Bitvise SSH Server before 9.32, Bitvise SSH Client before 9.33, KiTTY through 0.76.1.13, the net-ssh gem 7.2.0 for Ruby, the mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh crate before 0.40.2 for Rust.
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:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 93.5% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogolang.org/x/cryptoGHSA-45x7-px36-x8w8 (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIparamikoGHSA-45x7-px36-x8w8 (opens in a new tab)
- crates.iorusshGHSA-45x7-px36-x8w8 (opens in a new tab)
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- https://github.com/TeraTermProject/teraterm/releases/tag/v5.1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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- https://www.crushftp.com/crush10wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Update (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I724O3LSRCPO4WNVIXTZCT4VVRMXMMSG/ (opens in a new tab)
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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3YQLUQWLIHDB5QCXQEX7HXHAWMOKPP5O/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MKQRBF3DWMWPH36LBCOBUTSIZRTPEZXB/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/33XHJUB6ROFUOH2OQNENFROTVH6MHSHA/ (opens in a new tab)
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- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-364175.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-915275.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-769027.html (opens in a new tab)
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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 Advisory GHSA-45x7-px36-x8w8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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