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CVE-2015-5352

Public on 2015-07-22
Modified on 2015-07-22
Description

It was found that the OpenSSH client did not properly enforce the ForwardX11Timeout setting. A malicious or compromised remote X application could possibly use this flaw to establish a trusted connection to the local X server, even if only untrusted X11 forwarding was requested.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssh 2015-07-22 10:00 ALAS-2015-568

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.9 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N