Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting podman package, versions <2:4.2.0-3.el9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.35% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS9-PODMAN-2886732
  • published 17 Mar 2022
  • disclosed 15 Mar 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:9 podman to version 2:4.2.0-3.el9 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman package and not the podman package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package before 0.0.0-20220314234659-1baeb1ce4c0b for Go allows an attacker to crash a server in certain circumstances involving AddHostKey.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.5 high
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SUSE

7.5 high