CVE-2000-0525

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

OpenSSH does not properly drop privileges when the UseLogin option is enabled, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by providing the command to the ssh daemon.

OpenSSH does not properly drop privileges when the UseLogin option is enabled, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by providing the command to the ssh daemon.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

OpenBSD OpenSSH

First reported 25 years ago

2000-06-08 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD OpenSSH 1.2

1.2

OpenBSD OpenSSH 1.2.3

1.2.3

OpenBSD OpenSSH 2.1

2.1

References

20000609 OpenSSH's UseLogin option allows remote access with root privilege.

20000606 The non-default UseLogin feature in /etc/sshd_config is broken and should not be used.

341

1334

openssh-uselogin-remote-exec(4646)

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