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CVE-2014-2653

Public on 2014-03-27
Modified on 2014-09-19
Description

It was discovered that OpenSSH clients did not correctly verify DNS SSHFP records. A malicious server could use this flaw to force a connecting client to skip the DNS SSHFP record check and require the user to perform manual host verification of the DNS SSHFP record.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssh 2014-07-09 16:32 ALAS-2014-369

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N