CVE-2016-3115

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 35.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-03-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-93

Description

Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.2p2 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data, related to the (1) do_authenticated1 and (2) session_x11_req functions.

Affected products

OpenSSH: through 7.2
Oracle Vm Server: 3.2

References

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/session.c
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/session.c.diff?r1=1.281&r2=1.282&f=h
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183101.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183122.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178838.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179924.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/180491.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184264.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136234/OpenSSH-7.2p1-xauth-Command-Injection-Bypass.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0465.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0466.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/46

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