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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-7750: Improper Authentication

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-7750: Improper Authentication

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

transport.py in the SSH server implementation of Paramiko before 1.17.6, 1.18.x before 1.18.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, 2.1.x before 2.1.5, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, 2.3.x before 2.3.2, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests, as demonstrated by channel-open. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-paramiko

References

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