Security Advisory

CVE-2015-6563

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-24 00:00:00
Last updated 2026-05-27 16:11:52
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The monitor component in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.0 on non-OpenBSD platforms accepts extraneous username data in MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests, which allows local users to conduct impersonation attacks by leveraging any SSH login access in conjunction with control of the sshd uid to send a crafted MONITOR_REQ_PWNAM request, related to monitor.c and monitor_wrap.c.