CVE-2017-3204

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 4, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 5, 2016

Description

The Go SSH library (x/crypto/ssh) by default does not verify host keys, facilitating man-in-the-middle attacks. Default behavior changed in commit e4e2799 to require explicitly registering a hostkey verification mechanism.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-310

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SSH libraryGo	prior to commit e4e2799Affected

References

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19767
https://bridge.grumpy-troll.org/2017/04/golang-ssh-security/
https://github.com/golang/crypto/commit/e4e2799dd7aab89f583e1d898300d96367750991
97481vdb-entry

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