According to its banner, the version of OpenSSH running on the remote host is prior to 7.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw exists in ssh-agent due to loading PKCS#11     modules from paths that are outside a trusted whitelist.
    A local attacker can exploit this, by using a crafted     request to load hostile modules via agent forwarding, to     execute arbitrary code. To exploit this vulnerability,     the attacker would need to control the forwarded     agent-socket (on the host running the sshd server) and     the ability to write to the file system of the host     running ssh-agent. (CVE-2016-10009)

  - A flaw exists in sshd due to creating forwarded     Unix-domain sockets with 'root' privileges whenever     privilege separation is disabled. A local attacker can     exploit this to gain elevated privileges.
    (CVE-2016-10010)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in sshd     within the realloc() function due leakage of key     material to privilege-separated child processes when     reading keys. A local attacker can possibly exploit this     to disclose sensitive key material. Note that no such     leak has been observed in practice for normal-sized     keys, nor does a leak to the child processes directly     expose key material to unprivileged users.
    (CVE-2016-10011)

  - A flaw exists in sshd within the shared memory manager     used by pre-authenticating compression support due to a     bounds check being elided by some optimizing compilers     and due to the memory manager being incorrectly     accessible when pre-authenticating compression is     disabled. A local attacker can exploit this to gain     elevated privileges. (CVE-2016-10012)

  - A denial of service vulnerability exists in sshd when     handling KEXINIT messages. An unauthenticated, remote     attacker can exploit this, by sending multiple KEXINIT     messages, to consume up to 128MB per connection.

  - A flaw exists in sshd due to improper validation of     address ranges by the AllowUser and DenyUsers     directives at configuration load time. A local attacker     can exploit this, via an invalid CIDR address range, to     gain access to restricted areas.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

OpenSSH < 7.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 96151

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.10 Jan 7, 2026, 1:59 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2016-10012") Plugin Feed: 202601071359
Version 1.9 Mar 27, 2024, 2:17 PM Detection (fixed pre-update FNs. removed paranoia requirement) Logic Changes (changed to VCF format) Plugin requirements (introduced new, modern upstream dependency) Plugin Feed: 202403271417