7.8

CVE-2016-6515

The auth_password function in auth-passwd.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.3 does not limit password lengths for password authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crypt CPU consumption) via a long string.

Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Openbsd ≫ Openssh Updatep2 Version <= 7.2
Fedoraproject ≫ Fedora Version24
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 84.42% 0.993
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.5 3.9 3.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 10 6.9
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.