vulnerability

OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2016-10010

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 4, 2017
Added
Jan 9, 2017
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

openbsd-openssh-upgrade-7_4
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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