CVE-2006-5229 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2006-5229 Interim 1 38 2023-06-22T02:17:22Z current 2021-05-30T12:36:54Z 2023-06-22T02:17:22Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2006-5229 OpenSSH portable 4.1 on SUSE Linux, and possibly other platforms and versions, and possibly under limited configurations, allows remote attackers to determine valid usernames via timing discrepancies in which responses take longer for valid usernames than invalid ones, as demonstrated by sshtime. NOTE: as of 20061014, it appears that this issue is dependent on the use of manually-set passwords that causes delays when processing /etc/shadow due to an increased number of rounds. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings OpenSSH portable 4.1 on SUSE Linux, and possibly other platforms and versions, and possibly under limited configurations, allows remote attackers to determine valid usernames via timing discrepancies in which responses take longer for valid usernames than invalid ones, as demonstrated by sshtime. NOTE: as of 20061014, it appears that this issue is dependent on the use of manually-set passwords that causes delays when processing /etc/shadow due to an increased number of rounds. CVE-2006-5229 moderate 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N