CVE-2007-4752

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ssh in OpenSSH before 4.7 does not properly handle when an untrusted cookie cannot be created and uses a trusted X11 cookie instead, which allows attackers to violate intended policy and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as trusted.

Affected products

OpenSSH: through 4.6; 4.0, 4.0p1, 4.1, 4.1p1, 4.2, 4.2p1 (+6)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191321
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01271085
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27399
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/30249
http://secunia.com/advisories/31575
http://secunia.com/advisories/32241
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-02.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3126

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