CVE-2017-17878 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO=\des\ setting).

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101 https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8