CVE-2008-5161
At a glance Severity LOW 3.7 EPSS EPSS 18.55 % · percentile 97 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2008-11-19 Updated 2026-05-28 Assigner mitre NVD status Modified
Description Error handling in the SSH protocol in (1) SSH Tectia Client and Server and Connector 4.0 through 4.4.11, 5.0 through 5.2.4, and 5.3 through 5.3.8; Client and Server and ConnectSecure 6.0 through 6.0.4; Server for Linux on IBM System z 6.0.4; Server for IBM z/OS 5.5.1 and earlier, 6.0.0, and 6.0.1; and Client 4.0-J through 4.3.3-J and 4.0-K through 4.3.10-K; and (2) OpenSSH 4.7p1 and possibly other versions, when using a block cipher algorithm in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode, makes it easier for remote attackers to recover certain plaintext data from an arbitrary block of ciphertext in an SSH session via unknown vectors.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.1 LOW 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CISA-ADP CVSS 3.1 LOW 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary) CVSS 2.0 LOW 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:4.7p1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.1j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.2j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.8k:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.3.9k:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:4.4.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.0f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.1f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.2f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.0.3f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ssh:tectia_client:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+127 more
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