CVE-2024-6387

Description

A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.

References

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-256-15

https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-high-severity-vulnerability-reported-by-nsa/

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214118

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/2

https://securityaffairs.com/165535/hacking/openssh-flaw-cve-2024-6409.html?web_view=true

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/regresshion-vulnerability-in-openssh-gives-attackers-root-on-linux/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/01/regresshion_openssh/

https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins/index#gcp-2024-040

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387.html

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/cve-2024-6387-regresshion-vulnerability.html

https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.8

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:04.openssh.asc

https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/19904-security-advisory-0100

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/2024-openssh-vulnerability-regression-what-to-know-and-do

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6859-1

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-6387

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214120

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214118

https://stackdiary.com/openssh-race-condition-in-sshd-allows-remote-code-execution/

https://sig-security.rocky.page/issues/CVE-2024-6387/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240701-0001/

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6387

https://santandersecurityresearch.github.io/blog/sshing_the_masses.html

https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2024-0010

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843778

https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2024-July/041431.html

https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2024-July/000158.html

https://lists.almalinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/23BF5BMGFVEVUI2WNVAGMLKT557EU7VY/

https://github.com/zgzhang/cve-2024-6387-poc

https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh/issues/87

https://github.com/oracle/oracle-linux/issues/149

https://github.com/openela-main/openssh/commit/e1f438970e5a337a17070a637c1b9e19697cad09

https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/issues/9555

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/2249

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/discussions/2248

https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/4379

https://github.com/AlmaLinux/updates/issues/629

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2024-002.txt.asc

https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9132

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2024-6387.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294604

https://archlinux.org/news/the-sshd-service-needs-to-be-restarted-after-upgrading-to-openssh-98p1/

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4484

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4479

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4474

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4469

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4389

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4340

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4312

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/28/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/28/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/23/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/23/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/11/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/11/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/08/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/08/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/04/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/04/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/11

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/02/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/13

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/12

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/20

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/19

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3