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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2666

Original release date:08/23/2005

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

SSH, as implemented in OpenSSH before 4.0 and possibly other implementations, stores hostnames, IP addresses, and keys in plaintext in the known_hosts file, which makes it easier for an attacker that has compromised an SSH user's account to generate a list of additional targets that are more likely to have the same password or key.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:1.2 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 1.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/20/2006): Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162681 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://nms.csail.mit.edu/projects/ssh/

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://nms.csail.mit.edu/projects/ssh/

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0257

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0257.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1815795,00.asp

Hyperlink:http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1815795,00.asp

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25098