CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
83.3%
There is a vulnerability in the Portable OpenSSH server that may corrupt the PAM conversion stack.
The Portable OpenSSH server contains a vulnerability that may permit an attacker to corrupt the PAM conversion stack. Versions 3.7p1 and 3.7.1p1 are affected. Note that the OpenBSD-specific releases are not affected by this issue.
The complete impact of this vulnerability is not yet known, but may lead to privilege escalation, or a denial of service.
OpenSSH has announced version 3.7.1p2 to resolve this issue.
This issue can be mitigated by not using PAM. Set “UsePAM no” in sshd_config.
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Updated: September 24, 2003
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Thanks to OpenSSH for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2003-0787 |
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Severity Metric: | 1.50 Date Public: |