CVE-2018-15919

medium

Description

Remotely observable behaviour in auth-gss2.c in OpenSSH through 7.8 could be used by remote attackers to detect existence of users on a target system when GSS2 is in use. NOTE: the discoverer states 'We understand that the OpenSSH developers do not want to treat such a username enumeration (or "oracle") as a vulnerability.'

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181221-0001/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105163

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/180

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-28

Updated: 2019-03-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium