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CVE-2008-5161

LOW · CVSS 3.7 EPSS 15.39%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-11-19 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2008-5161
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.7
EPSS
15.39%
Linux

Original NVD Description

Error handling in the SSH protocol in (1) SSH Tectia Client and Server and Connector 4.0 through 4.4.11, 5.0 through 5.2.4, and 5.3 through 5.3.8; Client and Server and ConnectSecure 6.0 through 6.0.4; Server for Linux on IBM System z 6.0.4; Server for IBM z/OS 5.5.1 and earlier, 6.0.0, and 6.0.1; and Client 4.0-J through 4.3.3-J and 4.0-K through 4.3.10-K; and (2) OpenSSH 4.7p1 and possibly other versions, when using a block cipher algorithm in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode, makes it easier for remote attackers to recover certain plaintext data from an arbitrary block of ciphertext in an SSH session via unknown vectors.