ALPINE-CVE-2023-38408

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CVE-2023-38408
Published: 20 Jul 2023, 03:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:53

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

20 Jul 2023, 03:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:53
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•openssh

    < 9.0_p1-r4 | < 9.1_p1-r4 | < 0 | < 0 | < 0 | < 0 | < 0

References (1)