CVE-2008-5161
LOW 3.7EPSS 18.6%
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.
- CVSS v3.1
- 3.7 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - CVSS v2.0
- 2.6 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - EPSS
- 18.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile
- Published
- 2008-11-19
- Updated
- 2026-05-28
Proof-of-concept exploits (5)
- MOffSec/OpenSSH_4.7p1-Exploit6★ · 2023-11-11
- jarial-sec/OpenSSH_4.7p1-Exploit6★ · 2023-11-11
- mahaoffsec/OpenSSH_4.7p1-Exploit6★ · 2023-11-11
- sec-jarial/OpenSSH_4.7p1-Exploit6★ · 2023-11-11
- talha3117/OpenSSH-4.7p1-CVE-2008-5161-Exploit