CVE-2017-17878 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO="des" setting).

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Valvesoftware	Steam Link Steam Link Firmware

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:valvesoftware:steam_link_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:valvesoftware:steam_link:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-24T02:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:15:16.042Z

Reserved: 2017-12-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17878

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-27T17:08:21.140

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-17878

Redhat

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