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CVE-2001-1585 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (SSH protocol 2 (aka SSH-2) public key authentication in the)

SSH protocol 2 (aka SSH-2) public key authentication in the development snapshot of OpenSSH 2.3.1, available from 2001-01-18 through 2001-02-08, does not perform a challenge-response step to ensure that the client has the proper private key, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication as other users by suppl

CVE IDCVE-2001-1585
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score6.8
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWECWE-287
StatusModified
Published2001-12-31
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionSSH protocol 2 (aka SSH-2) public key authentication in the development snapshot of OpenSSH 2.3.1, available from 2001-01-18 through 2001-02-08, does not perform a challenge-response step to ensure that the client has the proper private key, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication as other users by supplying a public key from that user's authorized_keys file.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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