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CVE-2007-4752 Detail

Description

ssh in OpenSSH before 4.7 does not properly handle when an untrusted cookie cannot be created and uses a trusted X11 cookie instead, which allows attackers to violate intended policy and gain privileges by causing an X client to be treated as trusted.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/28/2008)

This issue did not affect the OpenSSH packages as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3, as they do not support Trusted X11 forwarding. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, this issue was addressed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191321 CVE, MITRE
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 CVE, MITRE
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01271085 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/27399 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30249 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31575 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32241 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-02.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3126 CVE, MITRE
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-399.htm CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:236 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-4.7 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479760/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483748/100/200/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25628 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-566-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3156 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2821 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280471 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36637 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1706 CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10809 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5599 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00214.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-4752
NVD Published Date:
09/11/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE