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CVE-2008-5161

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure
Publication date:
19/11/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Error handling in the SSH protocol in (1) SSH Tectia Client and Server and Connector 4.0 through 4.4.11, 5.0 through 5.2.4, and 5.3 through 5.3.8; Client and Server and ConnectSecure 6.0 through 6.0.4; Server for Linux on IBM System z 6.0.4; Server for IBM z/OS 5.5.1 and earlier, 6.0.0, and 6.0.1; and Client 4.0-J through 4.3.3-J and 4.0-K through 4.3.10-K; and (2) OpenSSH 4.7p1 and possibly other versions, when using a block cipher algorithm in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode, makes it easier for remote attackers to recover certain plaintext data from an arbitrary block of ciphertext in an SSH session via unknown vectors.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.60 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
2.60
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:4.7p1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.1j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.2j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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