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OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2023-51385

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 18, 2023
Added
Dec 27, 2023
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

In ssh in OpenSSH before 9.6, OS command injection might occur if a user name or host name has shell metacharacters, and this name is referenced by an expansion token in certain situations. For example, an untrusted Git repository can have a submodule with shell metacharacters in a user name or host name.

Solution

openbsd-openssh-upgrade-9_6
Title
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