CVE-2006-4316

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

SSH Tectia Management Agent 2.1.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by running a program called sshd, which is obtained from a process listing when the "Restart" action is selected from the Management server GUI, which causes the agent to locate the pathname of the user's program and restart it with root privileges.

SSH Tectia Management Agent 2.1.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by running a program called sshd, which is obtained from a process listing when the "Restart" action is selected from the Management server GUI, which causes the agent to locate the pathname of the user's program and restart it with root privileges.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

SSH Communications Security

First reported 18 years ago

2006-08-23 22:04:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:33:00

Affected Software

SSH Communications Security SSH Tectia Manager 1.2

1.2

SSH Communications Security SSH Tectia Manager 1.3

1.3

SSH Communications Security SSH Tectia Manager 1.4

1.4

SSH Communications Security SSH Tectia Manager 2.0

2.0

SSH Communications Security Tectia Manager 2.1.2

2.1.2

References

21559

Vendor Advisory

1016744

28159

19677

http://www.ssh.com/company/news/2006/english/security/article/776/

Patch

ssh-tectia-restart-privilege-escalation(28561)

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