CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-5715

Published: Oct 30, 2007 | Modified: Nov 15, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

DenyHosts 2.6 processes OpenSSH sshd not listed in AllowUsers log messages with an incorrect regular expression that does not match an IP address, which might allow remote attackers to avoid detection and blocking when making invalid login attempts with a username not present in AllowUsers, as demonstrated by the root username, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4323.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Denyhosts Denyhosts 2.6 (including) 2.6 (including)
Denyhosts Ubuntu edgy *
Denyhosts Ubuntu feisty *
Denyhosts Ubuntu upstream *

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