CVE-2007-4752

Published Sep 12, 2007

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
ssh in OpenSSH before 4.7 does not properly handle when an untrusted cookie cannot be created and uses a trusted X11 cookie instead, which allows attackers to violate intended policy and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as trusted.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Vendor comments

  • Red HatThis issue did not affect the OpenSSH packages as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3, as they do not support Trusted X11 forwarding. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, this issue was addressed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html

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