Vulnerability · NVD
CVE-2016-6210
CVE-2016-6210 : medium severity (CVSS 5.9). No tracked catalog app is linked to this CVE.
- Severity (CVSS)
- 5.9
- Exploitation
- 88.9 %
- Tracked apps
- 0
- Still exposed
- 0
NVD scale
EPSS, predicted over 30 days
sshd in OpenSSH before 7.3, when SHA256 or SHA512 are used for user password hashing, uses BLOWFISH hashing on a static password when the username does not exist, which allows remote attackers to enumerate users by leveraging the timing difference between responses when a large password is provided.
Attack vector : Network
No privileges required
No user interaction
Show raw CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
88.94%
exploit likely
percentile 99.8%