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CVE-2015-5600

Public on 2015-08-03
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description

It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon did not check the list of keyboard-interactive authentication methods for duplicates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the MaxAuthTries limit, making it easier to perform password guessing attacks.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssh 2015-12-14 10:00 ALAS-2015-625

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 8.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C