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Given this is a vuln when entering the password, just turn off password auth and use ssh keys only. It's what you should be doing anyway.
The vuln is specifically for key-based accounts:
"passwordless" here means that the account doesn't have a password. What the person you're replying to means is that password authentication should be completely disabled in the SSH config, as that's the only way to exploit this issue.