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CVE-2017-17878

An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643.

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
9.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.6%
percentile 76%
Public exploits
0
none known

An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO="des" setting).

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.60% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.09.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.010.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

References

  • github.com /ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • blogger.davidmanouchehri.com /2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • github.com /ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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