Title : OpenSSH Untrusted Cookie Creation Handling Security Bypass Weakness VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3156 CVE ID : CVE-2007-4752
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-09-17
Technical Description
A weakness has been identified in OpenSSH, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in ssh that uses a trusted X11 cookie when an untrusted cookie cannot be created, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security policies and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as trusted.
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