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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1908

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1908 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generation for untrusted X11 forwarding and relies on the local X11 server for access-control decisions, which allows remote X11 clients to trigger a fallback and obtain trusted X11 forwarding privileges by leveraging configuration issues on this X11 server, as demonstrated by lack of the SECURITY extension on this X11 server.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12openssh0, 0, 0
Debian:13openssh0, 0, 0
Debian:14openssh0, 0, 0
Debian:11openssh0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Apr 11, 2017 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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