CVE-2001-1474

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

SSH before 2.0 disables host key checking when connecting to the localhost, which allows remote attackers to silently redirect connections to the localhost by poisoning the client's DNS cache.

SSH before 2.0 disables host key checking when connecting to the localhost, which allows remote attackers to silently redirect connections to the localhost by poisoning the client's DNS cache.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon

First reported 24 years ago

2001-01-18 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.24

1.2.24

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.25

1.2.25

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.26

1.2.26

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.27

1.2.27

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.28

1.2.28

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.29

1.2.29

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.30

1.2.30

SSH Communications Security SSH daemon 1.2.31

1.2.31

References

VU#786900

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

ssh-dns-authentication-bypass(6604)

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