CVE-2018-15473

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet…

Medium · published August 17, 2018

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High probability of exploitation

CVSS calls it medium at 5.9. It sits in the 99.9th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
99%
Percentile
99.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.98675 · 99.9th percentile
Published
2018-08-17T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 AUG 00:00Z
    OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet…
    cvelistv5