FKIE_CVE-2023-38408
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-07-20 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:10
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/
Summary
The PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.3p2 has an insufficiently trustworthy search path, leading to remote code execution if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. (Code in /usr/lib is not necessarily safe for loading into ssh-agent.) NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-10009.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| openbsd | openssh | * | |
| openbsd | openssh | 9.3 | |
| openbsd | openssh | 9.3 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 37 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 38 |
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