CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-3861

MediumCVSS 5.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
5.12%

92th percentile - higher than 92% of all known CVEs

Summary

An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1 in the way SSH packets with a padding length value greater than the packet length are parsed. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory.

Risk Assessment

A compromised SSH server could allow reading sensitive client memory data or cause client crashes.

Recommendation

Update libssh2 to version 1.8.1 or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1 in the way SSH packets with a padding length value greater than the packet length are parsed. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS