Servers and applications
CVE-2016-1908
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.
- Severity
- Critical 9.8
- Published
- 11 Apr 2017
- Last changed
- 17 Jun 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 21 Oct 2026
- Fixed in
- 7.2
- Sources
- NVD
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
OpenSSHServers and applications · cpe:a:openbsd:openssh |
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