Improper Authentication Affecting mkj/dropbear package, versions [,2013.59)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MKJDROPBEAR-2365659
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Mar 2019

CVE-2017-2659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mkj/dropbear to version 2013.59 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

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