Bug 1623184 (CVE-2018-15919) - CVE-2018-15919 openssh: User enumeration via malformed packets in authentication requests
Summary: CVE-2018-15919 openssh: User enumeration via malformed packets in authenticat...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-15919
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1623185 1623186 1661050
Blocks: 1623187
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Reported: 2018-08-28 16:38 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2024-03-25 15:07 UTC (History)
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OpenSSH server was found to respond differently to failed GSSAPI authentication attempts when the target user existed versus when that user did not exist. A remote attacker could use this bug to test for the existence of particular usernames on a target system.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 10:54:48 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-08-28 16:38:05 UTC 
A flaw was found in OpenSSH versions from 5.9 (September 6, 2011) to the recently released 7.8 (August 24, 2018), inclusive. A remotely observable behaviour in auth-gss2.c could be used by remote attackers to detect existence of users on a target system when GSS2 is in use. Similar to CVE-2018-15473 (it is not a timing attack)


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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/180
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-08-28 16:38:48 UTC 
Created openssh tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1623185]
Comment 9 Shuai Song 2018-12-04 10:28:43 UTC 
Hi everyone, Will this cve be fixed in redhat7 ? 

looking for your reply.Thanks.
Comment 13 fabio.goia 2019-06-27 19:35:44 UTC 
Hi everybody

I didn't find an update for this issue to the RHEL 7. 
Is there a fix?

Thanks
Comment 14 wangye 2019-09-25 03:44:22 UTC 
Is this vulnerability still not fixed? Is there a fix? Still think that "system libraries will not treat this type of information leakage as a threat, because the username is considered to be a non-secret part of the user's identity, and an attacker without a password is useless"?
Comment 21 Doran Moppert 2020-02-11 23:03:08 UTC 
Mitigation:

If GSSAPI Authentication is not required, this flaw can be mitigated by changing the global configuration in `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` from `GSSAPIAuthentication yes` to `GSSAPIAuthentication no`.
Comment 22 Jakub Jelen 2020-02-12 07:02:02 UTC 
I updated the doc text. There is nothing like OpenSSHD (even though it is mentioned in few of the advisories. I remember there was something like this for windows, but I can not find it now. We ship OpenSSH in RHEL and its server is called sshd. I would keep it as "OpenSSH server" or sshd, not the combination of both.
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