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CVE-2023-38408 (GCVE-0-2023-38408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-10-15 18:33
VLAI
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-15 17:36 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element
Assigner
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