CVE-2021-36370

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-36370

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36370.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.8.27-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3:4.8.27-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed3:4.8.27-1
debian debiansidfixed3:4.8.27-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3:4.8.27-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.