CVE-2007-4752

high

Description

ssh in OpenSSH before 4.7 does not properly handle when an untrusted cookie cannot be created and uses a trusted X11 cookie instead, which allows attackers to violate intended policy and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as trusted.

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191321

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01271085

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280471

http://secunia.com/advisories/27399

http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

http://secunia.com/advisories/30249

http://secunia.com/advisories/31575

http://secunia.com/advisories/32241

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-02.xml

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3126

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36637

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1706

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10809

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5599

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00214.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:236

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-566-1

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3156

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2821

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-09-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High