CVE-2016-1908

Public on 2016-03-29
Modified on 2016-03-29
Description

An access flaw was discovered in OpenSSH; the OpenSSH client did not correctly handle failures to generate authentication cookies for untrusted X11 forwarding. A malicious or compromised remote X application could possibly use this flaw to establish a trusted connection to the local X server, even if only untrusted X11 forwarding was requested.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssh 2016-03-29 ALAS-2016-675

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.9 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H