CVE-2008-1483

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

OpenSSH 4.3p2, and probably other versions, allows local users to hijack forwarded X connections by causing ssh to set DISPLAY to :10, even when another process is listening on the associated port, as demonstrated by opening TCP port 6010 (IPv4) and sniffing a cookie sent by Emacs.

Affected products

OpenSSH: 4.3p2

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ssh_advisory.asc
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463011
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01462841
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29522
http://secunia.com/advisories/29537
http://secunia.com/advisories/29554
http://secunia.com/advisories/29626
http://secunia.com/advisories/29676
http://secunia.com/advisories/29683

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