DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15599

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15599
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15599.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15599
Upstream
Published
2018-08-21T01:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:25Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The recvmsguserauthrequest function in svr-auth.c in Dropbear through 2018.76 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability because username validity affects how fields in SSHMSG_USERAUTH messages are handled, a similar issue to CVE-2018-15473 in an unrelated codebase.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / dropbear

Package

Name
dropbear
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dropbear?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2018.76-4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / dropbear

Package

Name
dropbear
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dropbear?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2018.76-4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / dropbear

Package

Name
dropbear
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dropbear?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2018.76-4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / dropbear

Package

Name
dropbear
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dropbear?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2018.76-4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}