CVE-2016-0787

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0787
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-0787.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-0787
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-04-13T17:59:10.930Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:02:48.736808Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The diffiehellmansha256 function in kex.c in libssh2 before 1.7.0 improperly truncates secrets to 128 or 256 bits, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to decrypt or intercept SSH sessions via unspecified vectors, aka a "bits/bytes confusion bug."

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libssh2/libssh2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cbd5f72339dae6bfc587f4486f4349dd1d61f9b7
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.6.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

RELEASE.*
RELEASE.0.1
RELEASE.0.10
RELEASE.0.11
RELEASE.0.12
RELEASE.0.13
RELEASE.0.14
RELEASE.0.15
RELEASE.0.16
RELEASE.0.17
RELEASE.0.18
RELEASE.0.3
RELEASE.0.5
RELEASE.0.6
RELEASE.0.7
RELEASE.0.8
RELEASE.1.0
RELEASE.1.1
beforenb-0.*
beforenb-0.14
beforenb2-0.*
beforenb2-0.14
libssh2-1.*
libssh2-1.2
libssh2-1.2.1
libssh2-1.2.2
libssh2-1.2.3
libssh2-1.2.4
libssh2-1.2.5
libssh2-1.2.6
libssh2-1.2.7
libssh2-1.2.8
libssh2-1.2.9
libssh2-1.3.0
libssh2-1.4.0
libssh2-1.4.1
libssh2-1.4.2
libssh2-1.4.3
libssh2-1.5.0
libssh2-1.6.0

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "22"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "23"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "13.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-0787.json"