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CVE-2009-2904
A certain Red Hat modification to the ChrootDirectory feature in OpenSSH 4.8, as used in sshd in OpenSSH 4.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux…
Medium6.9EPSS 0.32%
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- redhat
Description
A certain Red Hat modification to the ChrootDirectory feature in OpenSSH 4.8, as used in sshd in OpenSSH 4.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and Fedora 11, allows local users to gain privileges via hard links to setuid programs that use configuration files within the chroot directory, related to requirements for directory ownership.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (11)
- 38794 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updates (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 36552 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1470 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-5429 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 38834 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 58495 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 39182 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9862 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522141 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0528 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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