FKIE_CVE-2023-2283

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-05-26 18:15 - Updated: 2025-11-03 21:15
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172861/libssh-0.9.6-0.10.4-pki_verify_data_signature-Authorization-Bypass.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2283Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2189736Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/27PD44ALQTZXX7K6JAM3BXBUHYA6DFFN/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-05
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240201-0005/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2023-2283.txtVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172861/libssh-0.9.6-0.10.4-pki_verify_data_signature-Authorization-Bypass.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Feb/18
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2283Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2189736Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/27PD44ALQTZXX7K6JAM3BXBUHYA6DFFN/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-05
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240201-0005/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2023-2283.txtVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libssh libssh *
libssh libssh *
fedoraproject fedora 37
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
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