PT-2008-1941 · Paramiko · Paramiko

Published 2008-01-16 · Updated 2022-05-01 · CVE-2008-0299

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Paramiko versions 1.7.1 and earlier

Description The issue is related to the improper use of RandomPool in the common.py module of Paramiko. When using threads or forked processes, this can allow one session to obtain sensitive information from another session by predicting the state of the pool.

Recommendations For Paramiko versions 1.7.1 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0299

GHSA-WQMM-Q65G-2HQR

PYSEC-2008-8

Affected Products

Paramiko

References · 25

• 🔥 http://people.debian.org/~nion/nmu-diff/paramiko-1.6.4-1_1.6.4-1.1.patch · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-0299 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00594.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0299 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-0299 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-07.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wqmm-q65g-2hqr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2008-8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0299 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00529.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/paramiko/PYSEC-2008-8.yaml · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28510 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080627172450/http://secunia.com/advisories/28510 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080205095439/http://secunia.com/advisories/28488 · Note