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CVE-2016-6210

Information exposure in Openbsd Openssh

CVSS score

5.9

EPSS probability

%88.9

Risk score

5.2

Published

9 y ago

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The Hacker News05.11.2026

OpenSSH Issues Emergency Fix for Flaw Letting Long Passwords Bypass SSH Auth on Alpine Linux

Attackers can log in to accounts that have no password, such as SSH key-only accounts, on some Alpine Linux servers running the standard openssh-server package. They need network access to the server, an account name, and a password between 257 and 1,024 bytes long. OpenSSH, which rates the flaw critical, released version 10.6p2 today to block it. Alpine has published fixed packages for every

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CVE-2016-6210 · Information exposure in Openbsd Openssh