CVE-2008-5161 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the SSH protocol affecting SSH Tectia products and OpenSSH 4.7p1. This flaw, occurring when block ciphers in CBC mode are used, allows remote attackers to potentially recover plaintext data from SSH sessions due to errors in handling. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 2.6, indicating low severity. It requires high attack complexity (AC:H) and only impacts confidentiality (C:P), meaning data could be partially exposed but not altered or made unavailable. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and it is not listed in the KEV catalog. While a Metasploit module exists for SSH version scanning, there are no public exploits for this specific vulnerability, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.7p1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:4.7p1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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