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    CVE-2010-4478

    OpenSSH 5.6 and earlier, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not properly validate the public parameters in the J-PAKE protocol, which allows remote attackers to bypass the need for knowledge of the shared secret, and successfully authenticate, by sending crafted values in each round of the protocol, a related issue to CVE-2010-4252.

    Published:Sep 20, 2010
    Last Modified:May 28, 2026
    EPS:Dec 6, 2010
    EPSS Score:0.00437
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Openbsd
    Product
    Openssh

    Exploits

    http://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdfhttp://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdf

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-114 Authentication Abuse
    CAPEC-115 Authentication Bypass
    CAPEC-151 Identity Spoofing
    CAPEC-19 Embedding Scripts within Scripts
    CAPEC-194 Fake the Source of Data
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-441 Malicious Logic Insertion
    CAPEC-478 Modification of Windows Service Configuration
    CAPEC-479 Malicious Root Certificate
    CAPEC-502 Intent Spoof
    CAPEC-503 WebView Exposure
    CAPEC-536 Data Injected During Configuration
    CAPEC-546 Incomplete Data Deletion in a Multi-Tenant Environment
    CAPEC-550 Install New Service
    CAPEC-551 Modify Existing Service
    CAPEC-552 Install Rootkit
    CAPEC-556 Replace File Extension Handlers
    CAPEC-558 Replace Trusted Executable
    CAPEC-562 Modify Shared File
    CAPEC-563 Add Malicious File to Shared Webroot
    CAPEC-564 Run Software at Logon
    CAPEC-57 Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Obtain Sensitive Data
    CAPEC-578 Disable Security Software
    CAPEC-593 Session Hijacking
    CAPEC-633 Token Impersonation
    CAPEC-650 Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server
    CAPEC-94 Adversary in the Middle (AiTM)

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    References

    http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673
    http://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdf
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c#rev1.5
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c.diff?r1=1.4%3Br2=1.5%3Bf=h
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659297
    https://github.com/seb-m/jpake
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12338
    http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673
    http://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdf
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c#rev1.5
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c.diff?r1=1.4%3Br2=1.5%3Bf=h
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659297
    https://github.com/seb-m/jpake
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12338

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High