CVE-2017-2659

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-03-21

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-209, CWE-287

Affected products

• Dropbear Ssh (Dropbear Ssh Project)
• Dropbear (Unknown)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2659
• https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/d7784616409a#l1.86