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