CVE-2016-1908

CVE Details

Release Date:

2016-01-14

Description

The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generationfor untrusted X11 forwarding and relies on the local X11 server for access-control decisions, which allows remote X11 clients to trigger a fallback and obtain trusted X11 forwarding privileges by leveraging configuration issues on this X11 server, as demonstrated by lack of the SECURITY extension on this X11 server.

See more information about CVE-2016-1908 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.9	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	Requires single instance	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (openssh)	ELSA-2016-0741	2016-05-12
Oracle Linux version 7 (openssh)	ELSA-2016-0465	2016-03-21
Oracle VM version 3.3 (openssh)	OVMSA-2016-0048	2016-05-13
Oracle VM version 3.4 (openssh)	OVMSA-2016-0048	2016-05-13

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