Vulnerabilites related to Rapid7 - Nexpose hardware appliance
CVE-2017-5243 (GCVE-0-2017-5243)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-06-06 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 14:55
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-327 - (Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm)
Summary
The default SSH configuration in Rapid7 Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017 does not specify desired algorithms for key exchange and other important functions. As a result, it falls back to allowing ALL algorithms supported by the relevant version of OpenSSH and makes the installations vulnerable to a range of MITM, downgrade, and decryption attacks.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Rapid7 Nexpose hardware appliance Version: All Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017.
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