Friday, October 19, 2018

Cisco's remote root exploit of the week - libssh auth bypass - affects ASA, IOS XR, many others

Have a good Friday guys :\

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181019-libssh

Trimmed report below. Cisco has not confirmed yet which devices are vulnerable.

Summary

A vulnerability in libssh could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on a targeted system.

The vulnerability is due to improper authentication operations by the server-side state machine of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by presenting a SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS message to a targeted system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to a targeted system.



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