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CVE-2021-3634

MEDIUM
6.5CVSS
Published: 2021-08-31
Updated: 2024-11-21
AI Analysis

Description

A flaw has been found in libssh in versions prior to 0.9.6. The SSH protocol keeps track of two shared secrets during the lifetime of the session. One of them is called secret_hash and the other session_id. Initially, both of them are the same, but after key re-exchange, previous session_id is kept and used as an input to new secret_hash. Historically, both of these buffers had shared length variable, which worked as long as these buffers were same. But the key re-exchange operation can also change the key exchange method, which can be based on hash of different size, eventually creating "secret_hash" of different size than the session_id has. This becomes an issue when the session_id memory is zeroed or when it is used again during second key re-exchange.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
low
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-787CWE-787

Metadata

Primary Vendor
LIBSSH
Published
8/31/2021
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

libssh : libsshredhat : virtualizationredhat : enterprise_linuxdebian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linuxfedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedoraoracle : mysql_workbenchnetapp : cloud_backup

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