CVE-2016-10010
7.0
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.09%
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-10010
To remediate CVE-2016-10010, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/openssh—upgrade to 7.4_p1-r0 or later
- Debian/openssh—upgrade to 1:7.4p1-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-10010 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 7.4_p1-r0
- from 0, < 1:7.4p1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |