CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. Its EPSS score suggests a 13.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2016-1908
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
13.74%
Original NVD Description
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.
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