CVE-2020-14145

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenSSH versions 5.7 through 8.4

Description The client side in OpenSSH has an Observable Discrepancy leading to an information leak in the algorithm negotiation. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to target initial connection attempts where no host key for the server has been cached by the client.

Recommendations For OpenSSH versions 5.7 through 8.4, update to a version later than 8.4 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.