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
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | openssh | 2015-12-14 | ALAS-2015-625 | Fixed |
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 |