CVE-2018-15919

Published: 28 August 2018

Remotely observable behaviour in auth-gss2.c in OpenSSH through 7.8 could be used by remote attackers to detect existence of users on a target system when GSS2 is in use. NOTE: the discoverer states 'We understand that the OpenSSH developers do not want to treat such a username enumeration (or "oracle") as a vulnerability.'

Notes

openssh-ssh1 is provided for compatibility with old devices that
cannot be upgraded to modern protocols. Thus we may not provide security
support for this package if doing so would prevent access to equipment.

SUSE reverted the fix for this issue because of a regression

per the post to oss-security, upstream doesn't conside this to
be a security issue, and as of 2020-07-07, there is no upstream
fix for this. We will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu.

Status

Severity score breakdown

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15919
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/27/2
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/180
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907503
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-15919