CVE-2017-5243 — Rapid7 / Nexpose hardware appliance

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Rapid7 / Nexpose hardware appliance	affected All Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017.

CWE

CWE-327

References

https://community.rapid7.com/community/nexpose/blog/2017/05/31/r7-2017-13-nexpose-hardware-appliance-ssh-enabled-obsolete-algorithms-cve-2017-5243

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

https://community.rapid7.com/community/nexpose/blog/2017/05/31/r7-2017-13-nexpose-hardware-appliance-ssh-enabled-obsolete-algorithms-cve-2017-5243