CVE-2001-0259

lowpriority · track · 24OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.008 · 58 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

0.84% (58th) EPSS

CVSS 3.6 · low

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

ssh-keygen in ssh 1.2.27 - 1.2.30 with Secure-RPC can allow local attackers to recover a SUN-DES-1 magic phrase generated by another user, which the attacker can use to decrypt that user's private key file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

3.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.03.6lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 4.9

v2.03.2lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-310USLLM-inferredCWE-321USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-20560SSH 1.2.x - Secure-RPC Weak Encrypted Authenticationfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
ssh ssh= 1.2.27nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ssh:ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ssh ssh= 1.2.28nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ssh:ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ssh ssh= 1.2.29nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ssh:ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ssh ssh= 1.2.30nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ssh:ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2001-06-02modified 2026-06-16

references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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