Discover SSH Vulnerabilities: RunZero Introduces SSHamble for Comprehensive Protocol Testing

RunZero, a company renowned for its cybersecurity solutions, has unveiled a new tool called SSHamble, designed to assess SSH protocol implementations for vulnerabilities and configuration errors. SSH (Secure Shell) is widely used—from network devices and servers to applications and data transfer tools. Despite the popularity of OpenSSH, there are numerous other implementations of this protocol, each potentially harboring its own unique issues.

In their research, RunZero experts uncovered a significant number of vulnerabilities across various SSH implementations that could lead to critical security breaches. Many of these issues had gone unnoticed due to the lack of tools for in-depth testing of all layers of the SSH protocol.

SSHamble was developed to fill this gap. This tool allows for the simulation of potential attacks and scenarios, such as unauthorized remote access, command execution after session termination, and information leakage through uncontrolled authentication requests. SSHamble provides an interactive shell that grants access to SSH requests in a post-session environment, simplifying the testing of various security aspects, such as environment management, signal handling, and port forwarding.