CVE-2018-15473

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15473

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15473.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed7.8p1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:7.7p1-4
debian debianbullseyefixed1:7.7p1-4
debian debianforkyfixed1:7.7p1-4
debian debiansidfixed1:7.7p1-4
debian debiantrixiefixed1:7.7p1-4

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.