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CVE-2016-1908 (GCVE-0-2016-1908)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-11 00:00 – Updated: 2026-05-29 20:14
VLAI
Summary
The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generation for 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.
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 2026-05-29 20:14 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-01-14 00:00
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