Vulnerability CVE-2008-5124
Published: 2008-11-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
JSCAPE Secure FTP Applet 4.8.0 and earlier does not ask the user to verify a new or mismatched SSH host key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Jscape Secure FTP Applet
security nruns
20.11.2008
Med.
JSCAPE Secure FTP Applet suffers from a man-in-the-middle vulnerability
Thierry Zoller
01.05.2019

Type:

CWE-287

 (Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Jscape -> Secure ftp applet 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4606
http://www.jscape.com/sftpapplet/docs/HTML/index.html?introhistory.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493569/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493652/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29882
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020346
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1919/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43300
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