Vulnerability in OpenSSH (CVE-2016-10010)
Summary
Vulnerability in OpenSSH (CVE-2016-10010). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4, when privilege separation is not used, creates forwarded Unix-domain sockets as root, which might allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to serverloop.c.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2016-10010 has been found in OpenSSH.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 7.0/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "OpenSSH CVE-2016-10010" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2016-10010 (OpenSSH) — CWE-264 / CVSS v3 7.0
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-264) exists in OpenSSH.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of OpenSSH.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.0/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'OpenSSH' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'OpenSSH' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
OpenSSHを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2016-10010 openssh Fixed in: 7.4_p1-r0
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2016-10010
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10010 openssh Fixed in: 1:7.4p1-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10010 openssh Fixed in: 1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.4
References
- advisory security.FreeBSD.org
- advisory openwall.com
- advisory security.netapp.com
- patch github.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web bugs.chromium.org
- web support.hpe.com
- web openssh.com
- web packetstormsecurity.com
- web securityfocus.com
- web securitytracker.com
- web slackware.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web security.netapp.com
- web exploit-db.com
- web github.com
- web exploit-db.com