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CVE-2024-6387

There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 99.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 99.5%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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.

CVSS 3.1
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
99.51% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-364, CWE-362
Affected
sonicwall/sma 6200 firmware · sonicwall/sma 7200 firmware · arista/eos · canonical/ubuntu linux · almalinux/almalinux · sonicwall/sma 6210 firmware · sonicwall/sma 7210 firmware · sonicwall/sma 8200v firmware · sonicwall/sra ex 7000 firmware · netapp/a1k firmware · netapp/a70 firmware · netapp/a90 firmware · netapp/a700s firmware · netapp/8300 firmware · netapp/8700 firmware · netapp/a400 firmware · netapp/c400 firmware · netapp/a250 firmware · netapp/500f firmware · netapp/c250 firmware · +33 more
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.