CVE-2008-5161

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

OpenSSH: 4.7p1
SSH Tectia Client: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.2 (+54)
SSH Tectia Connector: 4.0.7, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.5, 4.2.0, 4.3.0 (+24)
SSH Tectia Connectsecure: 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4
SSH Tectia Server: 4.0, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.0.7, 4.1.2 (+58)

References

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