7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Issue Overview:
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.
Affected Packages:
openssh
Issue Correction:
Run yum update openssh to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
openssh-clients-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-debuginfo-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-keycat-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-ldap-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-server-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.3-9.31.62.amzn1.i686
openssh-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.i686
src:
openssh-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.src
x86_64:
pam_ssh_agent_auth-0.9.3-9.31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-debuginfo-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-ldap-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-server-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-keycat-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
openssh-clients-6.6.1p1-31.62.amzn1.x86_64
Red Hat: CVE-2015-8325
Mitre: CVE-2015-8325
7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%