CVE-2017-17878

critical

Description

An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO="des" setting).

References

Advisories

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101

https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-27

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H