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CVE-2018-7749
The SSH server implementation of AsyncSSH before 1.12.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The SSH server implementation of AsyncSSH before 1.12.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIAsyncSSHGHSA-97cv-6pjf-5f9q (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- [asyncssh-announce] 20180310 AsyncSSH 1.12.1 released, with important security fix! (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/commit/c161e26cdc0d41b745b63d9f17b437f073bf7ba4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0022 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-97cv-6pjf-5f9q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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