CVE-2008-1483 — Openssh vulnerability

CWE-2649 documents9 sources
Severity
6.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 54.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Openbsd Openssh
Timeline
PublishedMar 24
Latest updateMay 3

Description

OpenSSH 4.3p2, and probably other versions, allows local users to hijack forwarded X connections by causing ssh to set DISPLAY to :10, even when another process is listening on the associated port, as demonstrated by opening TCP port 6010 (IPv4) and sniffing a cookie sent by Emacs.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianopenbsd/openssh< 1:4.7p1-5+3
▶NVDopenbsd/openssh4.3p2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m4xr-866g-83x6: OpenSSH 4↗2022-05-03
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CVEList
CVE-2008-1483: OpenSSH 4↗2008-03-24
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OSV
CVE-2008-1483: OpenSSH 4↗2008-03-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
BSD
FreeBSD-SA-08:05.openssh: OpenSSH X11-forwarding privilege escalation↗2008-04-17
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Ubuntu
OpenSSH vulnerability↗2008-04-01
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Red Hat
openssh may set DISPLAY even if it's unable to listen on respective port↗2008-01-08
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Debian
CVE-2008-1483: openssh - OpenSSH 4.3p2, and probably other versions, allows local users to hijack forward...↗2008
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-1483 openssh may set DISPLAY even if it's unable to listen on respective port↗2008-03-26
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