CVE-2016-3115 (GCVE-0-2016-3115)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-03-22 10:00
Modified
2026-05-29 20:27
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.2p2 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data, related to the (1) do_authenticated1 and (2) session_x11_req functions.
References
http://www.openssh.com/txt/x11fwd.adv x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-3115 x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136234/OpenSSH-7.2p1-xauth-Command-Injection-Bypass.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:14.openssh.asc vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FREEBSD
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39569/ exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0466.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/session.c x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035249 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183101.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/session.c.diff?r1=1.281&r2=1.282&f=h x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/180491.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa121 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-18 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84314 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179924.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184264.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/47 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0465.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183122.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/46 mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178838.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
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