VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-17878

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.60%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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).

Weakness classification

  • CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Primary references