Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/src/vfs/sftpfs/connection.c ↗
- https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/5c1d3c55dd15356ec7d079084d904b7b0fd58d3e/src/vfs/sftpfs/connection.c#L484 ↗
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcwin32/files/ ↗
- https://midnight-commander.org/ ↗
- https://docs.ssh-mitm.at/CVE-2021-36370.html ↗
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2021-August/msg00008.html ↗