CVE-2023-38408
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 64.4%openssh - security update
Published: 7/20/2023Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 9.3p2 has an insufficiently trustworthy search path, leading to remote code execution if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system. (Code in /usr/lib is not necessarily safe for loading into ssh-agent.) NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-10009.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/opensshfrom 0, < 9.0_p1-r4
- Debian/opensshfrom 0, < 1:8.4p1-5+deb11u2
- Debian/opensshfrom 0, < 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |