CVE-2008-0132: Pragmasys Fortress SSH

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pragma FortressSSH 5.0 Build 4 Revision 293 and earlier handles long input to sshd.exe by creating an error-message window and waiting for the administrator to click in this window before terminating the sshd.exe process, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via a flood of SSH connections with long data objects, as demonstrated by (1) a long list of keys and (2) a long username.

Affected products

• Pragmasys Fortress SSH: before 5.0 (fixed in 5.0); version 5.0 only

Published 2008-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.