Security Advisory

CVE-2005-2666

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-08-23 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 22:45:01
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.