Vulnerabilites related to [UNKNOWN] - dropbear
cve-2017-2659
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-20 20:44
Modified
2024-08-05 14:02
Summary
It was found that dropbear before version 2013.59 with GSSAPI leaks whether given username is valid or invalid. When an invalid username is given, the GSSAPI authentication failure was incorrectly counted towards the maximum allowed number of password attempts.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
[UNKNOWN] dropbear Version: fixed in 2013.59
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