CVE-2023-48795

MEDIUM
5.9
CVSS Score
Published: December 18, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 01:17 AM UTC
72 products affected across 44 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxFedora· also runs on 2 platforms

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Severity
MEDIUM5.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 94%
SSVC
PoC

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versionsv ≤ 0.76.1.13
All versionsv ≤ 2.11.0
All versionsv ≤ 0.37.0
All versions14.0 ≤ v < 14.4
Affected range stops below 14.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versionsv < 2.14.2
Affected range stops below 2.14.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versionsv < 9.33
Affected range stops below 9.33, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versionsv < 9.32
Affected range stops below 9.32, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versionsv < 2.2.22
Affected range stops below 2.2.22, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versionsv < 0.35.1
Affected range stops below 0.35.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versionsv ≤ 10.6.0v < 10.6.0
Affected range stops below 10.6.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Runs on — not affected

The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.

Affected range stops below 14.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.9MEDIUMCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-354

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