CVE-2006-4925

Openssh vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

14.7%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

packet.c in ssh in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an invalid protocol sequence with USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS, which causes newkeys[mode] to be NULL.

Affected vendor

Openbsd

Affected product

Openssh

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2006-09-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 14.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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