PYSEC-2008-8

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    PYSEC-2008-8

    Published: 16 Jan 2008Last Modified: 10 Jun 2026

    Summary:

    Details: common.py in Paramiko 1.7.1 and earlier, when using threads or forked processes, does not properly use RandomPool, which allows one session to obtain sensitive information from another session by predicting the state of the pool.

    References: http://people.debian.org/~nion/nmu-diff/paramiko-1.6.4-1_1.6.4-1.1.patch, http://www.lag.net/pipermail/paramiko/2008-January/000599.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428727, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460706, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00529.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00594.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27307, http://secunia.com/advisories/28488, http://secunia.com/advisories/28510, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-07.xml, http://secunia.com/advisories/29168, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39749, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqmm-q65g-2hqr

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: paramiko

    Purl: pkg:pypi/paramiko

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.2

    Affected versions

    0.1-bulbasaur

    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