Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2013-6890 First vendor Publication 2013-12-23
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2013-12-24

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

denyhosts 2.6 uses an incorrect regular expression when analyzing authentication logs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect block of IP addresses) via crafted login names.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6890

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21063
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21063
Title: DSA-2826-1 deny hosts - Remote denial of ssh service
Description: Helmut Grohne discovered that deny hosts, a tool preventing SSH brute-force attacks, could be used to perform remote denial of service against the SSH daemon. Incorrectly specified regular expressions used to detect brute force attacks in authentication logs could be exploited by a malicious user to forge crafted login names in order to make deny hosts ban arbitrary IP addresses.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2826-1
CVE-2013-6890
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): denyhosts
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28977
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28977
Title: DSA-2826-2 -- denyhosts -- remote denial of ssh service
Description: Helmut Grohne discovered that denyhosts, a tool preventing SSH brute-force attacks, could be used to perform remote denial of service against the SSH daemon. Incorrectly specified regular expressions used to detect brute force attacks in authentication logs could be exploited by a malicious user to forge crafted login names in order to make denyhosts ban arbitrary IP addresses.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2826-2
CVE-2013-6890
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): denyhosts
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-01-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-17067.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-17081.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-26 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201406-23.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2826.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2826
MISC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045982
MLIST http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/535
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/56239

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Date Informations
2021-05-04 12:28:59
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2021-04-22 01:35:09
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2020-05-23 00:38:58
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2016-04-26 23:56:09
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2015-01-07 13:26:25
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2014-06-27 13:26:14
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2014-02-17 11:24:30
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2013-12-24 21:20:24
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2013-12-24 13:19:28
  • First insertion