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CVE-2017-2659
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-03-21T15:59:57.093 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:16:36.320

Summary

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.

Affected products

dropbear_ssh_project — dropbear_ssh

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References

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