{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@rapid7.com", "ID": "CVE-2017-5243", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "Nexpose hardware appliance", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "All Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017." } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "Rapid7" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-327 (Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm)" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://community.rapid7.com/community/nexpose/blog/2017/05/31/r7-2017-13-nexpose-hardware-appliance-ssh-enabled-obsolete-algorithms-cve-2017-5243", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://community.rapid7.com/community/nexpose/blog/2017/05/31/r7-2017-13-nexpose-hardware-appliance-ssh-enabled-obsolete-algorithms-cve-2017-5243" } ] } }