CVE-2024-21653

Description

### Impact Nodes and servers get a ssh config by default that permits root login with password authentication. In a proper deployment, the SSH service is not exposed so there is no risk, but not all deployments are ideal. The default should therefore be less permissive. We will probably opt to completely remove the ssh option as it is only used for debugging. Later, we can add a debug mode where we can activate it if necessary. ### Workarounds Remove the ssh part from the docker file and build your own docker image

How to fix CVE-2024-21653

To remediate CVE-2024-21653, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 4.2.0 or later
• —upgrade to 4.2.0 or later
• —upgrade to 3fcc6e6a8bd1142fd7a558d8fdd2b246e55c8841 or later
• —upgrade to 3fcc6e6a8bd1142fd7a558d8fdd2b246e55c8841 or later

Is CVE-2024-21653 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (4)

• from 0, < 4.2.0
• from 0, < 4.2.0
• from 0, < 3fcc6e6a8bd1142fd7a558d8fdd2b246e55c8841 | from 0, < 4.2.0
• from 0, < 3fcc6e6a8bd1142fd7a558d8fdd2b246e55c8841 | from 0, < 4.2.0

CVSS scores

References (7)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-2wgc-48g2-cj5w
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21653
• PATCHgithub.com/vantage6/vantage6
• PATCHpypi.org/project/vantage6
• WEB