CVE-2001-0553

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

SSH Secure Shell 3.0.0 on Unix systems does not properly perform password authentication to the sshd2 daemon, which allows local users to gain access to accounts with short password fields, such as locked accounts that use "NP" in the password field.

SSH Secure Shell 3.0.0 on Unix systems does not properly perform password authentication to the sshd2 daemon, which allows local users to gain access to accounts with short password fields, such as locked accounts that use "NP" in the password field.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-08-14 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

SSH Communications Security Secure Shell 3.0.0

3.0.0

References

20010720 URGENT SECURITY ADVISORY FOR SSH SECURE SHELL 3.0.0

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

L-121

VU#737451

US Government Resource

586

3078

http://www.ssh.com/products/ssh/exploit.cfm

ssh-password-length-unauth-access(6868)

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