CVE-2010-4478 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2010-4478

OpenSSH 5.6 and earlier, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not...

Vulnerability Description

OpenSSH 5.6 and earlier, when J-PAKE is enabled, does not properly validate the public parameters in the J-PAKE protocol, which allows remote attackers to bypass the need for knowledge of the shared secret, and successfully authenticate, by sending crafted values in each round of the protocol, a related issue to CVE-2010-4252.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

openssh
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.27, 1.3, 1.5, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.9, 2.9.9, 2.9.9p2, 2.9p1, 2.9p2, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.1p1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2p1, 3.0p1, 3.1, 3.1p1, 3.2, 3.2.2, 3.2.2p1, 3.2.3p1, 3.3, 3.3p1, 3.4, 3.4p1, 3.5, 3.5p1, 3.6, 3.6.1, 3.6.1p1, 3.6.1p2, 3.7, 3.7.1, 3.7.1p1, 3.7.1p2, 3.8, 3.8.1, 3.8.1p1, 3.9, 3.9.1, 3.9.1p1, 4.0, 4.0p1, 4.1, 4.1p1, 4.2, 4.2p1, 4.3, 4.3p1, 4.3p2, 4.4, 4.4p1, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.7p1, 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5

Timeline

Official Publish: December 6th, 2010
Last Modified: May 28th, 2026
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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