CVE-2017-17878

CRITICAL

Valve Steam Link Firmware < 644 - Weak Password Hashing via DES Truncation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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).

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0160
EPSS Percentile 72.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-327
Status published
Products (1)
valvesoftware/steam_link_firmware < 644
Published Dec 27, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026