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HIGH

security flaw

Published Jun 10, 2003

Description

OpenSSH 3.6.1 and earlier, when restricting host access by numeric IP addresses and with VerifyReverseMapping disabled, allows remote attackers to bypass "from=" and "user@host" address restrictions by connecting to a host from a system whose reverse DNS hostname contains the numeric IP address.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (20)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 10, 2003
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Jun 9, 2003
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Jun 5, 2003