CVE-2020-1730 Information

Description

A flaw was found in libssh versions before 0.8.9 and before 0.9.4 in the way it handled AES-CTR (or DES ciphers if enabled) ciphers. The server or client could crash when the connection hasn’t been fully initialized and the system tries to cleanup the ciphers when closing the connection. The biggest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1730 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2A7BIFKUYIYKTY7FX4BEWVC2OHS5DPOU/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLSWHBQ3EPKGTGLQNH554Z746BJ3C554/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200424-0001/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4327-1/ https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2020-1730.txt https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

5.3