5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
5.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.2%
openssh is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:openbsd:openssh";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.806671");
script_version("2024-02-19T05:05:57+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1907");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-19 05:05:57 +0000 (Mon, 19 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-02-17 02:59:00 +0000 (Fri, 17 Feb 2017)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-01-28 12:15:36 +0530 (Thu, 28 Jan 2016)");
script_name("OpenSSH Denial of Service Vulnerability (Jan 2016)");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_openssh_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("openssh/detected");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.1p2");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=2fecfd486bdba9f51b3a789277bb0733ca36e1c0");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"openssh is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to an error in
'ssh_packet_read_poll2' function within 'packet.c' script.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successfully exploiting this issue allow
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application
crash).");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"OpenSSH versions before 7.1p2.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to OpenSSH version 7.1p2 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if( isnull( port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if( version_is_less( version:vers, test_version:"7.1p2" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"7.1p2", install_path:path );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
5.3 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
5.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.2%