The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generation for untrusted X11 forwarding and relies on the local X11 server for access-control decisions, which allows remote X11 clients to trigger a fallback and obtain trusted X11 forwarding privileges by leveraging configuration issues on this X11 server, as demonstrated by lack of the SECURITY extension on this X11 server.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2017-04-11T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T23:10:40.244Z
Reserved: 2016-01-15T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-1908
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-04-11T18:59:00.167
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:47:19.770
Link: CVE-2016-1908
Redhat