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CVE-2001-1585

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Improper authentication
6.8CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

SSH protocol 2 (aka SSH-2) public key authentication in the development snapshot of OpenSSH 2.3.1, available from 2001-01-18 through 2001-02-08, does not perform a challenge-response step to ensure that the client has the proper private key, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication as other users by supplying a public key from that user's authorized_keys file.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/2356 ↗