Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting ananta package, versions [,1.1.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANANTA-12304088
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed8 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jun 2025

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ananta to version 1.1.8 or higher.

Overview

ananta is an A command-line tool to execute commands on multiple remote hosts

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information via the retry_connect function due to the omission of AES-GCM ciphers in the algorithm_options["encryption_algs"] list. An attacker can manipulate SSH sequence numbers and truncate extension negotiation through a prefix-truncation Terrapin Attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1