cvelist/2017/5xxx/CVE-2017-5243.json

{
    "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"
            }
        ]
    }
}