Plaintext Storage of Hostnames and Keys in SSH Known_Hosts File

CVE-2005-2666 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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