CVE-2016-10010 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can gain root privileges via forwarded Unix-domain sockets when OpenSSH privilege separation is disabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-10010?
CVE-2016-10010 is a high-severity vulnerability in OpenSSH, published on 5 Jan 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4, when privilege separation is not used, creates forwarded Unix-domain sockets as root, which might allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to serverloop.c.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10010?
It affects 1 product.
Products include OpenSSH.
How do I fix CVE-2016-10010?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2016-10010 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-10010 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in OpenSSH
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-10010, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10010, GHSA-3m33-m56x-q24g, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10010.