# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-48859"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-10T14:35:43.553Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-08T01:05:48.773Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-48859"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-48859.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48859"
title: "SSH server timing side-channel in ssh_auth:check_password/3 allows unauthenticated username enumeration"
summary: "Observable Timing Discrepancy vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssh (ssh_auth, ssh_options modules) allows unauthenticated remote username enumeration via timing side-channel in password authentication.\n\nWhen the SSH daemon is configured with the user_passwords or password option, ssh_auth:check_password/3 performs a PBKDF2-SHA256 computation with 600,000 iterations (~300ms) for valid usernames, but returns immediately (~0ms) for invalid usernames via the ssh_options:get_password_option/2 path. This timing difference is detectable in a single authentication attempt and allows an unauthenticated attacker to distinguish valid from invalid usernames.\n\nThe user_passwords and password options are documented as intended for test purposes; the recommended alternative is pwdfun, which is not affected by this vulnerability.\n\nThis vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_auth.erl and lib/ssh/src/ssh_options.erl.\n\nThis issue affects OTP from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.2, corresponding to ssh from 6.0 before 6.0.1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"29.0","status":"affected","versionType":"otp","lessThan":"29.0.2"}],"vendor":"Erlang","product":"OTP","packageName":"otp","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected","versionType":"otp","lessThan":"6.0.1"}],"vendor":"Erlang","product":"OTP","packageName":"ssh","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"032d1bc9491a3975c68faf9bc7776115d6ae3005","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c342092ef4b369bb409d5b71ac8fd83bab74aedf"}],"vendor":"Erlang","product":"OTP","packageName":"erlang/otp","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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