OpenSSH < 7.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of OpenSSH running on the remote host is prior to 7.0. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A security bypass vulnerability exists in the kbdintnextdevice function in file auth2-chall.c that allows the circumvention of MaxAuthTries...

Updated openssh package fixes security vulnerability

The OpenSSH server, when keyboard-interactive challenge response authentication is enabled and PAM is being used the default configuration in Mageia, can be tricked into allowing more password attempts than the MaxAuthTries setting would normally allow in one connection, which can aid an attacker...

FreeBSD : OpenSSH -- MaxAuthTries limit bypass via duplicates in KbdInteractiveDevices (5b74a5bc-348f-11e5-ba05-c80aa9043978)

It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon did not check the list of keyboard-interactive authentication methods for duplicates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the MaxAuthTries limit, making it easier to perform password guessing attacks. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

OpenSSH -- MaxAuthTries limit bypass via duplicates in KbdInteractiveDevices

It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon did not check the list of keyboard-interactive authentication methods for duplicates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the MaxAuthTries limit, making it easier to perform password guessing attacks...