🛡️ CVE-2023-38408
🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-428 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-428
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-20
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora — —
openssh — —

References

Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/20/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/20/2
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/20/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/20/2

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