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CVE-2015-6563

Public on 2015-08-24
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description

A flaw was found in the way OpenSSH handled PAM authentication when using privilege separation. An attacker with valid credentials on the system and able to fully compromise a non-privileged pre-authentication process using a different flaw could use this flaw to authenticate as other users.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssh 2015-09-02 12:00 ALAS-2015-592
Amazon Linux 1 openssh 2015-12-14 10:00 ALAS-2015-625

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N