CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-6387

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
99.51%

100th percentile - higher than 100% of all known CVEs

Summary

A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd), leading to a race condition. This may cause sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated, remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability, potentially leading to unsafe server behavior.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update OpenSSH to the latest version to mitigate this security regression.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS