It was discovered that the OpenSSH sshd daemon fetched PAM environment settings before running the login program. In configurations with UseLogin=yes and the pam_env PAM module configured to read user environment settings, a local user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as root.
Find out more about CVE-2015-8325 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 6.2 |
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Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Access Vector | Local |
Access Complexity | High |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
Integrity Impact | Complete |
Availability Impact | Complete |
CVSS3 Base Score | 7 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Attack Vector | Local |
Attack Complexity | High |
Privileges Required | Low |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity Impact | High |
Availability Impact | High |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openssh) | RHSA-2017:0641 | 2017-03-21 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openssh) | RHSA-2016:2588 | 2016-11-03 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | openssh | Will not fix |