CVE-2015-6563

Summary

CVECVE-2015-6563
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-08-24 01:59:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-13 12:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe monitor component in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms accepts extraneous username data in MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests, which allows local users to conduct impersonation attacks by leveraging any SSH login access in conjunction with control of the sshd uid to send a crafted MONITOR_REQ_PWNAM request, related to monitor.c and monitor_wrap.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Mac Os X All All All All
Application Openbsd Openssh All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenSSH: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201512-04) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1500-1] openssh security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Broadcom Inc. | Connecting Everything CONFIRM www.broadcom.com
APPLE-SA-2015-10-21-4 OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 and Security Update 2015-007 APPLE lists.apple.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.0 CONFIRM www.openssh.com Vendor Advisory
Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:1581-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Oracle Linux Bulletin - October 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
About the security content of OS X El Capitan 10.11.1, Security Update 2015-004 Yosemite, and Security Update 2015-007 Mavericks - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf CONFIRM cert-portal.siemens.com
CVE-2015-6563 OpenSSH Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Full Disclosure: BFS-SA-2015-002: OpenSSH PAM Privilege Separation Vulnerabilities FULLDISC seclists.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: openssh-6.6.1p1-16.fc21 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request - OpenSSH 6.9 PAM privilege separation vulnerabilities MLIST www.openwall.com
Don't resend username to PAM; it already has it. · openssh/openssh-portable@d4697fe · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
OpenSSH PAM Support Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - January 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690300 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for openssh (2920c449-4850-11e5-825f-c80aa9043978)
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