CVE-2021-44512

7.0 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.0) in tmate tmate-ssh-server. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

World-writable permissions on the /tmp/tmate/sessions directory in tmate-ssh-server 2.3.0 allow a local attacker to compromise the integrity of session handling, or obtain the read-write session ID from a read-only session symlink in this directory.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-732
Published: 2021-12-07
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

tmate:tmate-ssh-server

References

https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate-ssh-server/commit/1c020d1f5ca462f5b150b46a027aaa1bbe3c9596
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/06/2
https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate-ssh-server/commit/1c020d1f5ca462f5b150b46a027aaa1bbe3c9596
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/06/2

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