CVE-2021-36370

Summary

CVECVE-2021-36370
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-30 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-08 13:41:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Midnight Commander through 4.8.26. When establishing an SFTP connection, the fingerprint of the server is neither checked nor displayed. As a result, a user connects to the server without the ability to verify its authenticity.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Midnight-commander Midnight Commander All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Midnight Commander MISC midnight-commander.org
mc/connection.c at master · MidnightCommander/mc · GitHub MISC github.com
mc/connection.c at 5c1d3c55dd15356ec7d079084d904b7b0fd58d3e · MidnightCommander/mc · GitHub MISC github.com
SSH-MITM Docs - CVE-2021-36370 MISC docs.ssh-mitm.at
Midnight Commander 4.8.27 released MISC mail.gnome.org
Midnight Commander for Windows - Browse Files at SourceForge.net MISC sourceforge.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182965 Debian Security Update for mc (CVE-2021-36370)
  • 355599 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for mc : ALAS2-2023-2147
  • 900329 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for mc 4.8.21
  • 901732 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for mc (6678-1)
  • 902944 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for mc (5442)

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