CVE-2010-4478

Published December 6th, 2010

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CVSS v3

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS v2

7.5

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

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.

seb-m/jpake

Small-subgroup confinement issue in the OpenSSL and OpenSSH implementations of J-PAKE.

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