Critical severity · published Dec 6, 2010
CVE-2010-4478
OpenSSH 5.6 and earlier, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not properly validate the public parameters in the J-PAKE protocol, which allows remote attackers to bypass the need for…
9.8
CVSS
4.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
OpenSSH 5.6 and earlier, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not properly validate the public parameters in the J-PAKE protocol, which allows remote attackers to bypass the need for knowledge of the shared secret, and successfully authenticate, by sending crafted values in each round of the protocol, a related issue to CVE-2010-4252.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.4% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Openssh · Openbsd
through 5.6; 1.2; 1.2.1; 1.2.2; 1.2.3; 1.2.27; +34 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4478
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4478
kb.juniper.net
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673
Exploit
http://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdf
Patch
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c#rev1.5
www.openbsd.org
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c.diff?r1=1.4%3Br2=1.5%3Bf=h
Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659297
github.com
https://github.com/seb-m/jpake
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