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CVE-2023-48795

Exploitation: poc CVSS 5.9 MEDIUM

CVSS base score: 5.9 (Medium) CISA · v3.1

Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one. Vulnrichment source record →

Vendor: n/a   Product: n/a

Description

The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in [email protected] and (if CBC is used) the [email protected] MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80, AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0, Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15, SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH through 18.2.0, ProFTPD before 1.3.8b (and before 1.3.9rc2), ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang XShell 7 before Build 0144, CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, Apache MINA sshd through 2.11.0, sshj through 0.37.0, TinySSH through 20230101, trilead-ssh2 6401, LANCOM LCOS and LANconfig, FileZilla before 3.66.4, Nova before 11.8, PKIX-SSH before 14.4, SecureCRT before 9.4.3, Transmit5 before 5.10.4, Win32-OpenSSH before 9.5.0.0p1-Beta, WinSCP before 6.2.2, Bitvise SSH Server before 9.32, Bitvise SSH Client before 9.33, KiTTY through 0.76.1.13, the net-ssh gem 7.2.0 for Ruby, the mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh crate before 0.40.2 for Rust.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2025-06-11 ICSA-25-162-05: Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU family CISA
2025-04-15 ICSA-25-105-08: ABB M2M Gateway CISA
2025-02-13 ICSA-25-044-09: Siemens SCALANCE W700 IEEE 802.11ax CISA
2024-11-14 ICSA-24-319-08: Siemens SINEC INS CISA
2024-07-11 ICSA-24-193-11: Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE 1808 CISA

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 3 points from 2026-11-05, tracked daily from 2026-11-05; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 93.5% on 2026-11-05.

Published Applicability

Red Hat CSAF/VEX 152 affected · 2158 fixed · 12382 not affected
OSV.dev (incl. GHSA) 40 affected · 32 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (CNA container) 1 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected
CVE List v5 (ADP/Vulnrichment) 5 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
Exploit / Pen Test
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB, public GitHub repositories and NVD exploit references (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and filtered to repositories that are still online, contain code, and are starred or at least two weeks old. They are still not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
NVD exploit references are links NVD's analysts tag as exploits; they confirm an exploit was referenced but carry no date. This product uses data from the NVD but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

First seenToolEvidenceEarliest reference
2025-01-08 GitHub PoC Unvetted — public repository TrixSec/CVE-2023-48795 +3 more

Metasploit is dated by the first commit of the module file, Exploit-DB by its publication date, and GitHub repositories by their creation date. GitHub PoC repositories are filtered (still online, contain code, starred or at least two weeks old) but not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware, so they show that code was published, not that it works or is safe to run. Evidence tiers are explained on the About page.

Distribution Status

Debian · dropbear bookworm 2022.83-1+deb12u1 trixie 2022.83-4 forky 2022.83-4 sid 2022.83-4 scope: local
Debian · erlang bookworm 1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1 trixie 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1 forky 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1 sid 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1 scope: local
Debian · filezilla bookworm 3.63.0-1+deb12u3 trixie 3.66.4-1 forky 3.66.4-1 sid 3.66.4-1 scope: local
Debian · golang-go.crypto bookworm trixie 1:0.17.0-1 forky 1:0.17.0-1 sid 1:0.17.0-1 scope: local
Debian · jsch bookworm trixie forky sid scope: local
Debian · libssh bookworm 0.10.6-0+deb12u1 trixie 0.10.6-1 forky 0.10.6-1 sid 0.10.6-1 scope: local
Debian · libssh2 bookworm trixie 1.11.0-4 forky 1.11.0-4 sid 1.11.0-4 scope: local
Debian · openssh bookworm 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u2 trixie 1:9.6p1-1 forky 1:9.6p1-1 sid 1:9.6p1-1 scope: local
Debian · paramiko bookworm trixie 3.4.0-1 forky 3.4.0-1 sid 3.4.0-1 scope: local
Debian · php-phpseclib bookworm 2.0.42-1+deb12u1 trixie 2.0.46-1 forky 2.0.46-1 sid 2.0.46-1 scope: local
Debian · php-phpseclib3 bookworm 3.0.19-1+deb12u2 trixie 3.0.35-1 forky 3.0.35-1 sid 3.0.35-1 scope: local
Debian · phpseclib bookworm 1.0.20-1+deb12u1 trixie 1.0.22-1 sid 1.0.22-1 scope: local
Debian · proftpd-dfsg bookworm 1.3.8+dfsg-4+deb12u3 trixie 1.3.8.b+dfsg-1 forky 1.3.8.b+dfsg-1 sid 1.3.8.b+dfsg-1 scope: local
Debian · proftpd-mod-proxy bookworm 0.9.2-1+deb12u1 trixie 0.9.3-1 forky 0.9.3-1 sid 0.9.3-1 scope: local
Debian · putty bookworm 0.78-2+deb12u1 trixie 0.80-1 forky 0.80-1 sid 0.80-1 scope: local
Debian · python-asyncssh bookworm 2.10.1-2+deb12u1 trixie 2.15.0-1 forky 2.15.0-1 sid 2.15.0-1 scope: local
Debian · tinyssh bookworm trixie 20230101-4 forky 20230101-4 sid 20230101-4 scope: local
Debian · trilead-ssh2 bookworm trixie forky sid scope: local

Where the distribution has shipped a fix, and in which version. Green means the release has resolved it, amber that it is still open. Data from the Debian Security Tracker, used under Debian's MIT / GPLv2+ terms. Debian is upstream of several other distributions, so a fix here often precedes theirs.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

poc
no
partial
5.9 MEDIUM
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE-354 — Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
2025-08-27

Federal Remediation Window (BOD 26-04)

No
no
partial control
If the asset isRemediate withinTable 1 row
Publicly exposed 60 days 8 of 16
Not publicly exposed Fix on system upgrade 16 of 16

BOD 26-04 replaced the single KEV deadline of BOD 22-01 with four inputs: whether the asset is publicly exposed, KEV status, whether exploitation is automatable, and technical impact. Exposure belongs to each agency's asset, not to the CVE, so both outcomes are shown. Automatable and technical impact come from the CISA assessment above. Days are calendar days; for KEV entries the clock starts on the date it was added, and otherwise when the agency identifies the vulnerability on an asset. Agencies make the final exposure call asset by asset, and may set shorter timelines.

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