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Alpine: openssh: security update to 7.7_p1-r3

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406057

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an
 invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related
 to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c. (CVE-2018-15473)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-15473

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 406057

Version: Revision 1.29

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Percentile: 53.58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15473

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15473

BID: 105140