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 [email protected] and (if CBC is used) the [email protected] 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.
This page covers CVE-2023-48795 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package dropbear. The fix is available in version 3.66.4-1; earlier versions remain affected.
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.
The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
UBUNTU-CVE-2023-48795 is classified as CWE-354: Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value. A checksum or integrity value is not verified properly, so tampered data passes as intact.
UBUNTU-CVE-2023-48795 is recorded against 11 packages.
Published on 18 December 2023 and last revised on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
ubuntu.com (Report)
terrapin-attack.com (Report)
www.openwall.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
www.cve.org (Report)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
dropbear has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:
These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-354: Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value) in other software:
Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| dropbear | — | — |
| filezilla | — | 3.66.4-1 |
| golang-go.crypto | — | — |
| libssh | — | 0.9.6-2ubuntu0.22.04.2 |
| lxd | — | 3.0.3-0ubuntu1~18.04.2+esm1 |
| openssh | — | 1:9.6p1-3ubuntu1 |
| openssh-ssh1 | — | — |
| paramiko | — | 2.12.0-2ubuntu4 |
| proftpd-dfsg | — | — |
| putty | — | — |
| python-asyncssh | — | 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.1 |
References
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