CVE-2024-6387

Published Jul 1, 2024

Last updated 2 months ago

Insights

Analysis from the Intruder Security Team
Published Oct 15, 2024

This vulnerability affects OpenSSH and could allow an attacker to execute commands on an affected device. The vulnerability is highly complex and has limitations which is likely to prevent widespread exploitation.

More information is available in our blog post here.

Overview

Description
A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
8.1
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
2.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-362
secalert@redhat.com
CWE-364

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations