Improper Authentication Affecting libssh package, versions [0.6.0,0.7.6)[0.8.0,0.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
79.86% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBSSH-2379523
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-10933  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libssh to version 0.7.6, 0.8.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. A vulnerability was found in libssh's server-side state machine before versions 0.7.6 and 0.8.4. A malicious client could create channels without first performing authentication, resulting in unauthorized access.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1