CVE-2007-2243

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CVE-2007-2243

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CVE-2007-2243 at MITRE

Description

OpenSSH 4.6 and earlier, when ChallengeResponseAuthentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of user accounts by attempting to authenticate via S/KEY, which displays a different response if the user account exists, a similar issue to CVE-2001-1483.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

Note from the SUSE Security Team

This issue does not affect openssh in SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, as no S/KEY support is built into our packages.

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 620222 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX], 628772 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:15:12 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:45:36 2022