Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5975

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-12-04 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 02:37:22
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The SSH USERAUTH CHANGE REQUEST feature in SSH Tectia Server 6.0.4 through 6.0.20, 6.1.0 through 6.1.12, 6.2.0 through 6.2.5, and 6.3.0 through 6.3.2 on UNIX and Linux, when old-style password authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted session involving entry of blank passwords, as demonstrated by a root login session from a modified OpenSSH client with an added input_userauth_passwd_changereq call in sshconnect2.c.