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CVE-2016-10010

Published: Jan 05, 2017 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
7.1 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V3
7.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10010
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4, when privilege separation is not used, creates forwarded Unix-domain sockets as root, which might allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to serverloop.c.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openssh Openbsd * 7.3 (including)
Openssh Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Openssh Ubuntu upstream *
Openssh Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Openssh Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Openssh Ubuntu xenial *
Openssh Ubuntu yakkety *

References

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