CVE-2017-17878

2017-12-2402:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

valve steam link

build 643

root passwords

AI Score

9.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.003

Percentile

66.3%

JSON

An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO=“des” setting).

References

blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html

github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101

github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110