CVE-2023-38408

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 22
Modified
Published: 20 Jul 2023, 00:00
Last modified:15 Oct 2024, 18:33

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
64.35% CRITICAL
64% probability -2.96%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
3 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

20 Jul 2023, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
15 Oct 2024, 18:33
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

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 64.35%• Percentile: 98%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-428•Unquoted Search Path or Element

    The product uses a search path that contains an unquoted element, in which the element contains whitespace or other separators. This can cause the product to access resources in a parent path.

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    37 | 38

  • openbsd•openssh

    < 9.3 | 9.3 | 9.3:p1

References (20)