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CVE-2016-10010
sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4, when privilege separation is not used, creates forwarded Unix-domain sockets as root, which might allow local…
High7.0EPSS 4.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- 94972 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0002/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161219 Announce: OpenSSH 7.4 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 1037490 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03818en_us (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-17:01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.647637 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/c76fac666ea038753294f2ac94d310f8adece9ce (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 40962 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1010 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140262/OpenSSH-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_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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