CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2021-36370
High (7.5) in midnight-commander midnight commander. EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An 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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-287
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- midnight-commander:midnight_commander
References
- https://docs.ssh-mitm.at/CVE-2021-36370.html
- https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/5c1d3c55dd15356ec7d079084d904b7b0fd58d3e/src/vfs/sftpfs/connection.c#L484
- https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/src/vfs/sftpfs/connection.c
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2021-August/msg00008.html
- https://midnight-commander.org/