CVE-2010-4478

OpenSSH 5.6 and earlier, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not properly validate the public parameters in the J-PAKE protocol, which allows remote attackers to bypass the need for knowledge of the shared secret, and successfully authenticate, by sending crafted values in each round of the protocol, a related issue to CVE-2010-4252.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2010-12-06

Last modified

2026-05-28

Weaknesses

CWE-287

Affected products

• Openssh (Openbsd)

References

• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673
• http://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdf
• http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c#rev1.5
• http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c.diff?r1=1.4%3Br2=1.5%3Bf=h
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659297
• https://github.com/seb-m/jpake
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12338