CVE-2011-3588

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The SSH configuration in the Red Hat mkdumprd script for kexec-tools, as distributed in the kexec-tools 1.x before 1.102pre-154 and 2.x before 2.0.0-209 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, disables the StrictHostKeyChecking option, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof kdump servers, and obtain sensitive core information, by using an arbitrary SSH key.

Affected products

RedHat Kexec-Tools: through 1.102pre-126; through 2.0.0-188

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1532.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0152.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716439
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1532.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0152.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716439

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