CVE-2010-4478
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8EPSS 4.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 4.4% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4446)
- Published
- December 6, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4446 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on May 28, 2026.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openbsd / openssh
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References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673
- http://seb.dbzteam.org/crypto/jpake-session-key-retrieval.pdf(Exploit)
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c#rev1.5(Patch)
- http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/jpake.c.diff?r1=1.4%3Br2=1.5%3Bf=h
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659297(Patch)
- https://github.com/seb-m/jpake
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12338
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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