CVE-2017-2659 — Vulnetix

CVE-2017-2659 REJECTED

It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.

EPSS 0.27% · 51.2th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.27%

51.2th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	dropbear	0, 2017.75-2

Exploit Intelligence

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2659 (circl)
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/d7784616409a#l1.86 (circl)

Timeline

Mar 20, 2019 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
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Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2659 third-party-advisory
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/d7784616409a#l1.86 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2659 third-party-advisory

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