SSH Terrapin Prefix Truncation Weakness (CVE-2023-48795) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa)

[Johnnie W Adams]

You might find RedHat's CVE page on this useful:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-48795

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 10:04 AM Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the SSH Terrapin Prefix Truncation Weakness on Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa). The details are as follows.
>
> # rpm -qa | grep openssh
> openssh-8.0p1-16.el8.x86_64
> openssh-askpass-8.0p1-16.el8.x86_64
> openssh-server-8.0p1-16.el8.x86_64
> openssh-clients-8.0p1-16.el8.x86_64
>
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa)
> #
>
> SSH Terrapin Prefix Truncation Weakness (CVE-2023-48795)
>
> Synopsis
> The remote SSH server is vulnerable to a mitm prefix truncation attack.
> Description
> The remote SSH server is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle prefix
> truncation weakness known as Terrapin.
> This can allow a remote, man-in-the-middle attacker to bypass integrity
> checks and downgrade the
> connection's security.
> Note that this plugin only checks for remote SSH servers that support
> either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC
> with Encrypt-then-MAC and do not support the strict key exchange
> countermeasures. It does not check for
> vulnerable software versions.
> See Also
> https://terrapin-attack.com/
>
> Solution
> Contact the vendor for an update with the strict key exchange
> countermeasures or disable the affected
> algorithms.
> Risk Factor
> Medium
> CVSS v3.0 Base Score
> 5.9 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
> CVSS v3.0 Temporal Score
> 5.3 (CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)
> VPR Score
> 6.9
> CVSS v2.0 Base Score
> 5.4 (CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
> CVSS v2.0 Temporal Score
> 4.2 (CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C)
> 187315 (10) - SSH Terrapin Prefix Truncation Weakness (CVE-2023-48795) 16
>
> References
> CVE CVE-2023-48795
>
> Is there a way to configure /etc/ssh/sshd_config to mitigate SSH Terrapin
> Prefix Truncation Weakness (CVE-2023-48795)?
>
> Please guide me.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kaushal
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