CVE detail
CVE-2023-48795
The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in [email protected] and (if CBC is used) the [email protected] MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80, AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0, Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15, SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH through 18.2.0, ProFTPD before 1.3.8b (and before 1.3.9rc2), ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang XShell 7 before Build 0144, CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, Apache MINA sshd through 2.11.0, sshj through 0.37.0, TinySSH through 20230101, trilead-ssh2 6401, LANCOM LCOS and LANconfig, FileZilla before 3.66.4, Nova before 11.8, PKIX-SSH before 14.4, SecureCRT before 9.4.3, Transmit5 before 5.10.4, Win32-OpenSSH before 9.5.0.0p1-Beta, WinSCP before 6.2.2, Bitvise SSH Server before 9.32, Bitvise SSH Client before 9.33, KiTTY through 0.76.1.13, the net-ssh gem 7.2.0 for Ruby, the mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh crate before 0.40.2 for Rust.
Buzz score
Why this CVE is surfacing
This all-time snapshot uses the same composite formula as Trending across a 30-year evidence window, rather than a current rolling window.
Buzz score components · mention 16.1 · diversity 6.5 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
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newssecurityaffairs.comJan 7, 2024, 11:53 AM- Terrapin attack allows to downgrade SSH protocol securitySecurity Affairs
Researchers discovered an SSH vulnerability, called Terrapin, that could allow an attacker to downgrade the connection’s security. Security researchers from Ruhr University Bochum (Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Jörg Schwenk) discovered a vulnerability, called Terrapin (CVE-2023-48795, CVSS score 5.9), in the Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic network protocol. An attacker can trigger the flaw to downgrade the […]
newssecurityaffairs.comJan 2, 2024, 10:18 AM - Week in review: Terrapin SSH attack, Mr. Cooper breachHelp Net Security
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newswww.helpnetsecurity.comDec 24, 2023, 9:00 AM - SSH vulnerability exploitable in Terrapin attacks (CVE-2023-48795)Help Net Security
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2023-48795) in the SSH cryptographic network protocol that could allow an attacker to downgrade the connection’s security by truncating the extension negotiation message. The Terrapin attack Terrapin is a prefix truncation attack targeting the SSH protocol. “By carefully adjusting the sequence numbers during the handshake, an attacker can remove an arbitrary amount of messages sent by the client or server at the beginning of the secure channel without the … More →
newswww.helpnetsecurity.comDec 19, 2023, 10:11 AM
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