Authentication bypass in Paramiko - CVE-2018-7750

 

Authentication bypass in Paramiko - CVE-2018-7750

Published: March 16, 2018 / Updated: June 17, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11130
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7750
CWE-ID: CWE-592
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication.

The weakness exists is due to improper security restrictions. A remote attacker can use a customized SSH client, bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to resources on the target systemю

Affected software

Paramiko
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Engine
py3-paramiko (Alpine package)
python-paramiko
Red Hat Virtualization Host
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE
Red Hat Virtualization Manager
CloudForms

IBM Netezza Analytics

How to mitigate CVE-2018-7750

Update to versions 2.4.1, 2.3.2, 2.2.3, 2.1.5, 2.0.8, 1.18.5 or 1.17.6.

py3-paramiko (Alpine package) - update to 2.6.0-r0
python-paramiko - addressed in versions 2.1.1-0.4.el7, 2.2.3-1.fc26, 2.3.2-1.fc27, 2.4.1-1.fc28
IBM Netezza Analytics - update to 11.2.29

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

External References

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