CVE-2017-2659

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Mar 20, 2019
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 1, 2016

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-209

Affected Products

Product	Versions
dropbear[UNKNOWN]	fixed in 2013.59Affected

References

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

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