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CVE-2024-6387 Detail

Description

A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.


Metrics

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Hyperlink Resource
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/19
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/20
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/02/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/04/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/04/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/08/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/08/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/10/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/11/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/11/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/23/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/23/6
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/28/3
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4312 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4312 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4340 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4340 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4389 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4389 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4469 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4469 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4474 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4474 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4479 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4479 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4484 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4484 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387 Third Party Advisory 
https://archlinux.org/news/the-sshd-service-needs-to-be-restarted-after-upgrading-to-openssh-98p1/
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/regresshion-vulnerability-in-openssh-gives-attackers-root-on-linux/
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294604 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294604 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2024-6387.html
https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9132
https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2024-002.txt.asc
https://github.com/AlmaLinux/updates/issues/629
https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/4379
https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/discussions/2248
https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/2249
https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/issues/9555
https://github.com/openela-main/openssh/commit/e1f438970e5a337a17070a637c1b9e19697cad09
https://github.com/oracle/oracle-linux/issues/149
https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh/issues/87
https://github.com/zgzhang/cve-2024-6387-poc
https://lists.almalinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/23BF5BMGFVEVUI2WNVAGMLKT557EU7VY/
https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2024-July/000158.html
https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2024-July/041431.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843778
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2024-0010
https://santandersecurityresearch.github.io/blog/sshing_the_masses.html
https://santandersecurityresearch.github.io/blog/sshing_the_masses.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-6387
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240701-0001/
https://sig-security.rocky.page/issues/CVE-2024-6387/
https://stackdiary.com/openssh-race-condition-in-sshd-allows-remote-code-execution/
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214118
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214120
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-6387
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6859-1
https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/2024-openssh-vulnerability-regression-what-to-know-and-do
https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisory/19904-security-advisory-0100
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:04.openssh.asc
https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.8 Release Notes  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.8 Release Notes  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion.txt Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion.txt Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/cve-2024-6387-regresshion-vulnerability.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387.html
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/01/regresshion_openssh/
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/regresshion-an-openssh-regression-error-cve-2024-6387

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-364 Signal Handler Race Condition Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-6387
NVD Published Date:
07/01/2024
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.