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 severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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