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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2022-29245 EUVD-2022-5968GHSA-72p8-v4hg-v45p

Weak private key generation in SSH.NET

Published May 31, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

SSH.NET is a Secure Shell (SSH) library for .NET. In versions 2020.0.0 and 2020.0.1, during an `X25519` key exchange, the client’s private key is generated with `System.Random`. `System.Random` is not a cryptographically secure random number generator, it must therefore not be used for cryptographic purposes. When establishing an SSH connection to a remote host, during the X25519 key exchange, the private key is generated with a weak random number generator whose seed can be brute forced. This allows an attacker who is able to eavesdrop on the communications to decrypt them. Version 2020.0.2 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, one may disable support for `curve25519-sha256` and `curve25519-sha256@libssh.org` key exchange algorithms.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sshnet SSH.NET >= 2020.0.0, < 2020.0.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet SSH.NET < 2020.0.2 2020.0.2 GHSA-72p8-v4hg-v45p

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