CVE-2009-2904
Published Oct 1, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- A certain Red Hat modification to the ChrootDirectory feature in OpenSSH 4.8, as used in sshd in OpenSSH 4.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and Fedora 11, allows local users to gain privileges via hard links to setuid programs that use configuration files within the chroot directory, related to requirements for directory ownership.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-16
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "7910598E-BEC1-4644-9DE4-D8BE505A4F9E"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "40B1B209-53B8-48DC-AFFC-BD69D5978A0B"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
},
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": false,
"matchCriteriaId": "B3BB5EDB-520B-4DEF-B06E-65CA13152824"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:server:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": false,
"matchCriteriaId": "5833A489-D6DE-4D51-9E74-189CBC2E28CA"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5:*:client:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": false,
"matchCriteriaId": "AF3FB21C-AC0E-4F6C-B68A-9405E57ADCF0"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": false,
"matchCriteriaId": "443CB3FD-014D-4C37-BB02-03DAA5A3F3C1"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
],
"operator": "AND"
}
]