CVE-2016-10010

openssh: privilege escalation via Unix domain socket forwarding

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · December 19, 2016

Updated · May 30, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.0 · 7.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment