CVE-2016-10009
Untrusted search path vulnerability in ssh-agent.c in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 7.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local…
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 37.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in ssh-agent.c in ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 7.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local PKCS#11 modules by leveraging control over a forwarded agent-socket.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- OpenSSH < 7.4 - agent Protocol Arbitrary Library Loading (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 40963remote, linuxpublished 23 Dec 2016Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 40963 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 37.4% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
20
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/9476ce1dd37d3c3218d5640b74c34c65e5f4efe5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 40963 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0002/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 94968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161219 Announce: OpenSSH 7.4 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 1037490 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03818en_us (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-17:01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- USN-3538-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.647637 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140261/OpenSSH-Arbitrary-Library-Loading.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180910 [SECURITY] [DLA 1500-1] openssh security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1009 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [oss-security] 20230719 CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agent (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20230719 CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agent (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20230719 Re: CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agent (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173661/OpenSSH-Forwarded-SSH-Agent-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-1206 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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