CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1474

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2001-01-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-01-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ssh ssh 1.2.24 • ssh ssh 1.2.25 • ssh ssh 1.2.26 • ssh ssh 1.2.27 • ssh ssh 1.2.28 • ssh ssh 1.2.29 • ssh ssh 1.2.30 • ssh ssh 1.2.31

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