{"id":"CVE-2007-5715","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2007-5715","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:47:36.642Z","title":"DenyHosts 2.6 processes OpenSSH sshd \"not listed in AllowUsers\" log messages with an incorrect regular expression that does not match an IP address, which might allow remote attackers to avoid detection and blocking when making invalid login attempts…","description":"DenyHosts 2.6 processes OpenSSH sshd \"not listed in AllowUsers\" log messages with an incorrect regular expression that does not match an IP address, which might allow remote attackers to avoid detection and blocking when making invalid login attempts with a username not present in AllowUsers, as demonstrated by the root username, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-4323.","published":"2007-10-30T19:46:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:46:41.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-16"],"affected":["denyhosts/denyhosts"],"epss":{"score":0.01068,"percentile":0.64567,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.07%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181213","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/45298","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237449","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181213","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/45298","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237449","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5715","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}