CVE-2020-29652

medium

Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2021-05-18

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A nil pointer dereference in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh component through v0.0.0-20201203163018-be400aefbc4c for Go allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service against SSH servers.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:0.0~git20201221.eec23a3-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:0.0~git20201221.eec23a3-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:0.0~git20201221.eec23a3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:0.0~git20201221.eec23a3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:0.0~git20201221.eec23a3-1`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`<0.0.0-20201216223049-8b5274cf687f`	`0.0.0-20201216223049-8b5274cf687f`

References

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

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