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CVE-2001-1585

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2001-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 supplying a public key from that user's authorized_keys file.

Affected Platforms

Openbsd Openssh

Weakness Type

CWE-287

References