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CVE-2001-1459

CVE information

Published

22 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier does not initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) session if commands are executed with no pty, which allows local users to bypass resource limits (rlimits) set in pam.d..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -