Medium 5.0Published Mar 13, 2007

CVE-2007-0726The SSH key generation process in OpenSSH in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4 through 10.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the server before SSH has finished cre…

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The SSH key generation process in OpenSSH in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4 through 10.4.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by connecting to the server before SSH has finished creating keys, which causes the keys to be regenerated and can break trust relationships that were based on the original keys.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	10.3.9; 10.4; 10.4.1; 10.4.2; 10.4.3; 10.4.4; 10.4.5; 10.4.6; and 2 more ranges	NVD
apple mac_os_x_server apple:mac_os_x_server	10.3.9; 10.4; 10.4.1; 10.4.2; 10.4.3; 10.4.4; 10.4.5; 10.4.6; and 2 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html	patch, vendor-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
http://www.osvdb.org/34850
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22948
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017756
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html	us-government-resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32975

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