CVE-2023-2283 (GCVE-0-2023-2283)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-26 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:35
VLAI
Summary
A vulnerability was found in libssh, where the authentication check of the connecting client can be bypassed in the`pki_verify_data_signature` function in memory allocation problems. This issue may happen if there is insufficient memory or the memory usage is limited. The problem is caused by the return value `rc,` which is initialized to SSH_ERROR and later rewritten to save the return value of the function call `pki_key_check_hash_compatible.` The value of the variable is not changed between this point and the cryptographic verification. Therefore any error between them calls `goto error` returning SSH_OK.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libssh Affected: libssh-2
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