SSH credential disclosure via premature authentication
Published Jan 16, 2025 · Updated Feb 3, 2025
Improper host-key validation in Tabby 1.0.213 allows remote attackers controlling an SSH server to obtain configured credentials. The SSH connection workflow starts password authentication while the host-key verification prompt remains unresolved, transmitting the username and password before approval. A user must initiate a password-authenticated connection to the attacker-controlled server; the demonstrated consequence is disclosure of those SSH credentials.
Summary
What happened
Improper host-key validation in Tabby 1.0.213 allows remote attackers controlling an SSH server to obtain configured credentials. The SSH connection workflow starts password authentication while the host-key verification prompt remains unresolved, transmitting the username and password before approval. A user must initiate a password-authenticated connection to the attacker-controlled server; the demonstrated consequence is disclosure of those SSH credentials.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-48460
- Published
- Jan 16, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 3, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-295
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 3, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- SSH honeypot credential-capture reproductionproof of concept · demonstrated
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