Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2019· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2017-2659
CVE-2017-2659
Description
It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.
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Affected products
2- Range: <2013.59
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/d7784616409amitrex_refsource_MISC
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