CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-6565

7.2 HIGH Published 2015-08-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

sshd in OpenSSH 6.8 and 6.9 uses world-writable permissions for TTY devices, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (terminal disruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to a device, as demonstrated by writing an escape sequence.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openssh 6.8 • openbsd openssh 6.9

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References