CVE-2019-19753 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

SimpleMiningOS through v1259 ships with SSH host keys baked into the installation image, which allows man-in-the-middle attacks and makes identification of all public IPv4 nodes trivial with Shodan.io. NOTE: the vendor indicated that they have no plans to fix this, and discourage deployment using public IPv4.

Published: 2024-04-30

Score: 9.1 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00163.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://rsaxvc.net/blog/2020/4/10/Widespread_re-use_of_SSH_Host_Keys_in_Ethereum_Mining_Rig_Operating_Systems.html
https://simplemining.net/page/changelog

History

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Stupidthings.net Stupidthings.net simpleminingos
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:stupidthings.net:simpleminingos::::::::
Vendors & Products		Stupidthings.net Stupidthings.net simpleminingos
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Stupidthings.net Simpleminingos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:25:12.681Z

Reserved: 2019-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-19753

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:25:12.681Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-04-30T18:15:19.437

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2019-19753

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-321

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