CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2904

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-10-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-10-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-16

Description

A certain Red Hat modification to the ChrootDirectory feature in OpenSSH 4.8, as used in sshd in OpenSSH 4.3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 and Fedora 11, allows local users to gain privileges via hard links to setuid programs that use configuration files within the chroot directory, related to requirements for directory ownership.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openssh 4.3 • openbsd openssh 4.8

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References