VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-4478

critical
Published 2010-12-06 · Modified 2026-05-28
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openbsdopenssh{"endIncluding":"5.6"}
openbsdopenssh1.2
openbsdopenssh1.2.1
openbsdopenssh1.2.2
openbsdopenssh1.2.3
openbsdopenssh1.2.27
openbsdopenssh1.3
openbsdopenssh1.5
openbsdopenssh1.5.7
openbsdopenssh1.5.8
openbsdopenssh2.1
openbsdopenssh2.1.1
openbsdopenssh2.2
openbsdopenssh2.3
openbsdopenssh2.3.1
openbsdopenssh2.5
openbsdopenssh2.5.1
openbsdopenssh2.5.2
openbsdopenssh2.9
openbsdopenssh2.9.9
openbsdopenssh2.9.9p2
openbsdopenssh2.9p1
openbsdopenssh2.9p2
openbsdopenssh3.0
openbsdopenssh3.0.1
openbsdopenssh3.0.1p1
openbsdopenssh3.0.2
openbsdopenssh3.0.2p1
openbsdopenssh3.0p1
openbsdopenssh3.1
openbsdopenssh3.1p1
openbsdopenssh3.2
openbsdopenssh3.2.2
openbsdopenssh3.2.2p1
openbsdopenssh3.2.3p1
openbsdopenssh3.3
openbsdopenssh3.3p1
openbsdopenssh3.4
openbsdopenssh3.4p1
openbsdopenssh3.5
openbsdopenssh3.5p1
openbsdopenssh3.6
openbsdopenssh3.6.1
openbsdopenssh3.6.1p1
openbsdopenssh3.6.1p2
openbsdopenssh3.7
openbsdopenssh3.7.1
openbsdopenssh3.7.1p1
openbsdopenssh3.7.1p2
openbsdopenssh3.8
openbsdopenssh3.8.1
openbsdopenssh3.8.1p1
openbsdopenssh3.9
openbsdopenssh3.9.1
openbsdopenssh3.9.1p1
openbsdopenssh4.0
openbsdopenssh4.0p1
openbsdopenssh4.1
openbsdopenssh4.1p1
openbsdopenssh4.2
openbsdopenssh4.2p1
openbsdopenssh4.3
openbsdopenssh4.3p1
openbsdopenssh4.3p2
openbsdopenssh4.4
openbsdopenssh4.4p1
openbsdopenssh4.5
openbsdopenssh4.6
openbsdopenssh4.7
openbsdopenssh4.7p1
openbsdopenssh4.8
openbsdopenssh4.9
openbsdopenssh5.0
openbsdopenssh5.1
openbsdopenssh5.2
openbsdopenssh5.3
openbsdopenssh5.4
openbsdopenssh5.5

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.