CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-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 users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to serverloop.c.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-264, CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openbsd:openssh
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140262/OpenSSH-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/19/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94972
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037490
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.647637