CVE-2023-48795

Public Exploit

Description

The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com and (if CBC is used) the -etm@openssh.com MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80, AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0, Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15, SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH through 18.2.0, ProFTPD before 1.3.8b (and before 1.3.9rc2), ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang XShell 7 before Build 0144, CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, Apache MINA sshd through 2.11.0, sshj through 0.37.0, TinySSH through 20230101, trilead-ssh2 6401, LANCOM LCOS and LANconfig, FileZilla before 3.66.4, Nova before 11.8, PKIX-SSH before 14.4, SecureCRT before 9.4.3, Transmit5 before 5.10.4, Win32-OpenSSH before 9.5.0.0p1-Beta, WinSCP before 6.2.2, Bitvise SSH Server before 9.32, Bitvise SSH Client before 9.33, KiTTY through 0.76.1.13, the net-ssh gem 7.2.0 for Ruby, the mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh crate before 0.40.2 for Rust.

Category

5.9
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 81.36% Top 5%
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References

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https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/CHANGES release notes
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES release notes
https://www.netsarang.com/en/xshell-update-history/ release notes
https://www.paramiko.org/changelog.html release notes
https://www.openssh.com/openbsd.html release notes
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commits/master patch
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/-n5WqVC18LQ mailing list
https://www.bitvise.com/ssh-server-version-history release notes
https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/tags release notes
https://gitlab.com/libssh/libssh-mirror/-/tags release notes
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/18idv52/cve202348795_why_is_this_cve_still_undisclosed/ issue tracking
https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/d1b43dc0f1361d2ad67601169e90a7fc50bb0369/lib/ssh/doc/src/notes.xml#L39-L42 patch
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https://www.terrapin-attack.com exploit
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https://thorntech.com/cve-2023-48795-and-sftp-gateway/ third party advisory
https://github.com/warp-tech/russh/releases/tag/v0.40.2 release notes
https://github.com/TeraTermProject/teraterm/commit/7279fbd6ef4d0c8bdd6a90af4ada2899d786eec0 patch
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https://github.com/mwiede/jsch/pull/461 release notes
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https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1291 mitigation
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https://github.com/jtesta/ssh-audit/commit/8e972c5e94b460379fe0c7d20209c16df81538a5 patch
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https://www.crushftp.com/crush10wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Update release notes
https://github.com/connectbot/sshlib/compare/2.2.21...2.2.22 third party advisory
https://github.com/connectbot/sshlib/commit/5c8b534f6e97db7ac0e0e579331213aa25c173ab patch
https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2/commit/97b223f8891b96d6fc054df5ab1d5a1a545da2a3 patch
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2023-48795?
CVE-2023-48795 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2023-48795?
To fix CVE-2023-48795, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2023-48795 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2023-48795 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~81% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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